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Re: Run auth_imap as non root

from [Sebastian Benoit] [Permanent Link][Original]
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Subject: Re: Run auth_imap as non root
From: Sebastian Benoit <benoit-lists@fb12.de>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:01:12 +0100
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Mário Gamito(gamito@gmail.com) on 2007.02.18 17:16:11 +0000:
> Hi,
> 
> Sebastian Benoit wrote:
> >Mário Gamito(gamito@gmail.com) on 2007.02.17 18:32:21 +0000:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I need to run auth_imap as another user than root.
> >
> >Why?
> Because, dovecot's imap software (chekcpassword, namely) doesn't accept 
> auth_imap running as root, and therefore i can't authenticate.

apparently Dovecot can authenticate users directly from the directory,
without the need for auth_ldap, see

  http://wiki.dovecot.org/DovecotOpenLdap

and doc/dovecot-ldap.conf in the dovecot distribution.

/B.
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Sebastian Benoit <benoit-lists@fb12.de>

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