[imp] IMP using LDAP backend for authentication and preferences

[Judson Bishop]

This sounds like an error in your LDAP configuration.  Mine works great,
but then I'm going through cyrus to LDAP for my authentication.

Jud

On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 23:16 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 14:02 -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> > Is it possible to use current user's username/password when storing 
> > preferences into LDAP database?
> > 
> > Currently, it seems that rootdn and password are mandatory fields when 
> > using LDAP preferences driver (they are not marked as required on the 
> > config page, but if left empty, horde fails to run with error message 
> > stating that they are required).
> > 
> > I'd expect if I was using same LDAP database for both auth and 
> > preferences, and if rootdn and password are empty, than user's 
> > credentials would be used for writing to the LDAP database (which is 
> > kind of more secure than allowing single user full access and storing 
> > that user's password in conf file on the disk).
> > 
> ----
> I'm watching this with some interest here as I found the same thing with
> HEAD...if I leave rootdn & rootdn password empty for what I assumed to
> be an anonymous bind, it fails.
> 
> Also - and this has to be because it's not patently obvious to me, I
> would love NOT having to log in once for horde (via LDAP) and then again
> for mail (IMAP)  My initial thought was to grep ldap imp/config/* but
> that returned as much the notion in my head to make it work as a single
> log in.
> 
> Other fish to fry tonight though.
> 
> Keep me posted - I have no problems following in any wake  ;-)
> 
> Craig
>