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Re: smtp auth with sasl and ldap

From: Michael Pye (michaelulimit.org)
Date: Tue Sep 02 2003 - 08:53:56 CDT


Karl Meisterheim wrote:
> saslauthd -v
> saslauthd 2.1.10
> authentication mechanisms: getpwent kerberos5 pam rimap shadow

Not an immediate solution for you perhaps, but current versions of
saslauthd can authenticate directly with LDAP, rather than via
PAM->LDAP. This would at least cut out one level of complexity.

At sasl build time, configure with:
--with-ldap=(YOUR_LDAP_INSTALL_DIRECTORY)

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Michael Pye