[Dovecot] dovecot + LDAP-SASL ?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 08:38 +0200, Hadmut Danisch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> just a question:
> 
> I know that dovecot supports SASL authentication and supports LDAP.
> Which means that dovecot performs the SASL methods itself and stores the
> plaintext secret on LDAP.
> 
> But it is also possible to have the LDAP do the SASL work and dovecot just
> pass SASL messages through? Even when the LDAP server uses a proprietary
> SASL method not supported by dovecot?

For plaintext authentication you can use authentication binds and have
the password stored on LDAP side in any way you want.

For non-plaintext authentication Dovecot needs the secret in plaintext
or some other specific format. LDAP doesn't support "SASL forwarding".
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