Re: UW-IMAP auth via PAM & LDAP

[Miguel Carvalho <mvieira@ipp.pt>]

Mike Coughlan wrote:

> Miquel, I do not see any intelligent errors anyplace.  Slapd shows the
> messages as seen in my last post.  I still can't tell from it weather it
> liked my password.
>

Do you try running the slapd with debuggin option activated?
Its a good start.

>
> /var/log/maillog displays:
> Mar 20 16:12:53 spawn imapd[25020]: Login failure user=mcoughlan
> host=[192.168.200.27]
>
> /var/log/messages/:
> Mar 20 16:15:25 spawn inetd[465]: pid 25079: exit status 1
>
> /var/log/secure:
> Mar 20 16:15:16 spawn imapd[25079]: connect from 192.168.200.27
>
> > Have made de migration of the say local acounts to the LDAP server?
>

It seams you have not migrated your say local info to the LDAP server.

>
> How do I migrate Linux accounts to LDAP entries?

You must run the MigrationTools supplied by Padl ( http://www.padl.com ).
After running the scripts ( be suru to redirect the output of the scripts to a
external file ), you have to add that info to the LDAP server. Here you may
user ldapadd ( take a look at the man pages ),  so you can populate de
database.


>  This may be what I am missing.

I think is is.

> I will look at padl.com. UW-IMAP requires home directories for mail
> folders.

Yes, you have to create the say home directory os the user ( the home directory
path, comes from the LDAP account ).
You have to create the directory, at the first login.

> How are these determined from an LDAP authentificatoin?

Each user, has this kind of info in the LDAP server( after de migration! )

> If
> /etc/password is no longer necessary, then how does LDAP replace it.

It relaces because all the information that was on the local files (etc/* ) has
been migrated to the LDAP server.


>
> Thanks again for all your help.