Re: cyrus imap/sasl/ldap authentication question

On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 22:51, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote:
> Kevin Williams wrote:
> > All,
> > 
> > Here's another thought.  I would like the simplicity of all cyrus imapd
> > daemon authentication going through one file.  This can't happen using
> > PAM (sieve, pop, imap, etc. files are used).
> > 
> > Since I have NSS configured to use LDAP via pam, I already have the
> > /etc/ldap.conf file.  What if I were to start sasl using: 
> > saslauthd -O /etc/ldap.conf -a ldap
> > 
> > That way I would only have one ldap configuration file to worry about. 
> > Do you think this would be a security issue even though everything is
> > authenticating locally (ldap is on the same server)?
> > 
> > I haven't tried this yet, just wondering if anyone sees something wrong
> > with this idea.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Kevin Williams
> > 
> 
> 
> Try it, and please don't top-post =P.
> 
> js

It didn't work out of the box.  I'll have to get the separate file to
work and then find the difference.  It would be cool if I could share
that file though!  Sorry about the top post.

Kevin