Re: Getting IMAP to work with OpenLDAP

[Raf Meeusen <Raf.Meeusen@wooble.BE>]

On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 14:06, Vishal Khanna wrote:
> Hi All,
> I have basic problems in getting LDAP to work with IMAP.
> 
> What I want to do
> ------------------
> I want to authenticate my MAIL(IMAP) users on Linux box from the LDAP 
> server running on another server
> 
> a. Is it possible ?

yes -> you've PAM for that...

> b. If yes then how ?

read the PAM manual, and how to connect LDAP with PAM.

kr,

Raf

> 
> Any help would be really appreciated, I have done the hunting on the web
> 
> The pacakages I use are (RPMS on 2.4.19 Kernel)
> IMAP
> -----
> imap-2001a-142
> imap-lib-2001a-142
> 
> LDAP
> openldap2-client-2.1.4-26
> yast2-ldap-client-2.6.5-66
> nss_ldap-199-31
> openldap2-2.1.4-26
> pam_ldap-150-57
> tclldap-1.1.1-693
> perl-ldap-0.251-20
> perl-ldap-ssl-0.251-20
> 
> I did what was mentioned of changing the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf
> Changed the entries in /etc/pam.d/imap to
> 
> auth           required      pam_ldap.so
> account        required        pam_ldap.so
> 
> No matter what I do I cannot get it to work. My openLDAP software works 
> perfectly fine otherwise.
> 
> Cheers
> Vishal
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Raf Meeusen <Raf.Meeusen@wooble.BE>