Re: LDAP authentication and authorization using Debian and Active Directory

Luca Olivetti <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.cyrus
Message-ID <[email protected]>
El 16/6/21 a les 0:04, Vladislav Kurz ha escrit:
> Hello,
> 
> I have several working Cyrus installations authenticated against AD, but I do
> not use LDAP. Instead it authenticates via kerberos. To be more precise:
> Cyrus/Exim -> Saslauthd -> PAM -> pam_krb5.so -> AD

Is there some advantage using pam_krb5 instead of pam_ldap/pam_winbind 
or "saslauthd -a ldap"?
> For distribution groups, aliases and such stuff I use LDAP queries in Exim. But
> kerberos for authentication
> 
> Unfortunately kerberos does not give you groups. Maybe you could use winbind
> and libnss-winbind to get groups from AD to Linux and use them as if they were
> in /etc/group...

that's what I do, but then I don't have many active users and my DC is 
samba not windows (though that shouldn't matter as long as the mail 
server is joined to the domain).

Bye
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Luca Olivetti
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