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Subject:    Re: [imp] installing cyrus & ldap (2)
From:       Nadeem Hasan <nhasan () nadmm ! com>
Date:       1999-11-14 21:08:02
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amir wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the info. My main concern is not heavy
> security or encryption, but it is mainly the speed of
> accessing a user's mailbox and sending mail. Would
> pam_ldap faster than a normal OpenLDAP server?

There is no comparison. pam_ldap is a PAM module which
uses an LDAP directory to do authentication. Which means
that pam_ldap would be using OpenLDAP directory to do
authentication, i.e. you would need both to do the job.

> 
> I plan to have one machine dedicated as a mail server,
> but it should have no accounts on it (in the
> /etc/passwd and shadow files), I want the account info
> to be stored on the LDAP server, which is on the same
> machine. Is it also possible to store the messages on
> the LDAP server, too?

Cyrus stores messages in a hashed directory structure and
there is no support for storing messages in the LDAP.
LDAP is no suitable for such application too.

> 
> Thanks,
> Amir
> 
> --- Nadeem Hasan <nhasan@nadmm.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > A better way is to use PAM support with SASL and use
> > pam_ldap module to do the authentication. I am still
> > trying a basic Cyrus IMAPD configuration to work, so
> > I can't help you with any instructions. you can get
> > pam_ldap at http://www.padl.com/pam_ldap.html
> >
> > Once I succeed in getting Cyrus to work with
> > OpenLDAP,
> > I will post detailed instructions.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Nadeem
> >
> > amir wrote:
> > >
> > > the previous post was incorrect, please ignore it,
> > > sorry about that.
> > >
> > > can anyone point me where i can find help on
> > > installing cyrus imapd with ldap support. i want
> > to
> > > run IMP using an ldap server for authentication. I
> > > have the latest version of cyrus imapd and sasl. I
> > > have successfully compiled LDAP, and now I want to
> > > compile Cyrus to use an LDAP server for
> > > authentication. I have downloaded the
> > pwcheck_ldap.c
> > > and I want to configure Cyrus with it. How do I do
> > > this? The docs at http://www.linc-dev.com/ didn't
> > help
> > > much.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Amir
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