[horde] authentication active directory with fallback
Guido Leisker
lists.gl at guido-leisker.de
Thu Jan 19 10:10:21 PST 2006
>2. Would it be possible to make a fallback to textlogin
>>(ldap/mysql/unix) if the 1st doesnt work, maybe because the active
>>directory is down, or he/she still has no account there?
>
>
> If horde is authenticating against your imap server and that imap
> server is using PAM to authenticate, then it's possible to set up
> multiple authentication sources in PAM with fallback.
>
> For example, if using latest Redhat release of linux, run the
> "system-config-authentication" tool and just check off all the services
> that you'd like authentication to work with.
>
> Be aware that that will modify the system-auth pam file and hence
> effect all of your services on that server though. What we did was just
> use that to build the correct pam file on a test box, then just named
> that imap and copied that over the imap file in the /etc/pam.d dir.
>
>
Hm, I would use imp only to connect to foreign imap server.
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