This post is basically intended to collect some information currently hard to find on Google. I wrote with the hope it might help someone else running into same or similar trouble as I did. It took several hours distributed over several days of investigation to finally fix a problem with my setup of Gentoo-based servers commonly authenticating against LDAP tree over PAM, Linux’ Pluggable Authentication Modules. Continue reading »
Jul 21
( IMAP + LDAP ) + pam_access = not working
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Having a setup of Postfix/Cyrus IMAP using LDAP-based user account/mailbox management I tried to extend this by pam_access today for disabling some of the mailboxes without deleting them. pam_access is a plugin for PAM, the Pluggable Authentication Modules, used to reject or grant access depending on a user’s name or origin of request. In a setup as described before this seems to be useful for disabling selected mailboxes e.g. to temporarily lock out tardy payers.
