[Dovecot] Authentication with many Windows AD

Joseba Torre joseba.torre at ehu.es
Thu Feb 14 15:32:29 EET 2013


El 14/02/13 11:45, Antonio Alberola escribió:
>
> Hi,
>
>> >You can set as many databases as you want. Check this:
>> >
>> >http://wiki2.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase
>> >http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/MultipleDatabases
> This solution is valid if I have only one domain. In case you have more than
> one domain, you need authenticate in the appropriate LDAP server.
> Is That correct?

If you don't give us more details, no, that's not correct. Whenever a 
user tries to authenticate dovecot will try the 1st passdb, if it fails 
the 2nd and so on. I can't see how the domain is relevant here.
>
> I'm going to explain my particular case.
> I have five Windows domains with some users who belong to those domains. I
> also have other users who are authenticated with local UNIX accounts.
> The only thing that I can do (I think) is using a Radius server. But, I'd
> rather not use it.




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