Re: ldapdb and postfix

[Igor Brezac <igor@ipass.net>]

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Dieter Kluenter wrote:

> Igor Brezac <igor@ipass.net> writes:
>
> > On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Dieter Kluenter wrote:
> >
> >> Paul Jacobson <pj@cutlerco.com.au> writes:
>
> >>
> >> I'm running ldapdb based authentication with postfix. Initially I
> >> viewed the same errors as you do,changing pwcheck_method in smtpd.conf
> >> solved it. As you may have seen from my mails to Tony, the syntax of
> >> pwcheck_method may vary.
> >>
> >> ,----[ smtpd.conf ]
> >> | pwcheck_method: ldapdb
> >
> > ldapdb is not a valid pwcheck_method.  auxprop, saslauthd, pwcheck,
> > authdaemond and alwaystrue are valid options.  authdaemond and alwaystrue
> > may not be available depending on the cyrus-sasl compile options.
>
> But it is the only configuration option with ldapdb that works for me.
> OpenLDAP-2.2.14
> cyrus-sasl-2.1.18
>

This is getting off-topic because this is a cyrus sasl issue.  For some
reason pwcheck_method falls back to auxprop pwcheck_method which is what
you want.  In my opinion this is a bug.

-- 
Igor