MBOX-Line: From MRC at CAC.Washington.EDU  Fri Jul 21 10:14:57 2006
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Mark Crispin <MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:37 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] LDAP authentication not working for IMAP
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On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Whitmore Mark J Contr SMC/MCL wrote:
> Does IMAP work with LDAP ????

Just as a friendly reminder, the imap-protocol list is for discussions 
about the IMAP protocol, not any particular IMAP software.  Since your 
question is about UW's IMAP server, the appropriate list for such 
questions is the imap-uw list.

The answer below applies to the UW IMAP server.  Other IMAP servers may 
behave differently, and you would need to contact the appropriate 
lists/support for those servers if you are interested in learning their 
behavior.

You can use LDAP authentication via PAM. but all IMAP users must be 
defined in the passwd file since they must be assigned UNIX user ids and 
UNIX home directories.  The only thing that comes from LDAP would be the 
password.

-- Mark --

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