MBOX-Line: From MRC at CAC.Washington.EDU  Fri Jul 21 11:26:43 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, Jan Kundrt wrote:
> Well, provided the uw-imapd uses the standard glibc calls, a properly
> configured nss (/etc/nsswitch.conf) should be enough. It's a system's
> configuration, not the imapd's one. I'm not familiar with the uw-imapd
> internals, though, and we're off-topic here :).

UW imapd uses getpwnam() and getpwuid().  It also, if configured for PAM 
authentication, uses PAM for password validation.  It has no internal 
knowledge of LDAP.

-- Mark --

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