Re: [courier-users] question about pam usage with authldap

[Sam Varshavchik]

Bob Kinney writes:

Hi:

We've got (unfortunately) two disparate LDAP trees currently in our
environment.  One controls our mail accounts, another our login
accounts.  They are served via different servers as well.

We currently have pam setup to use nss_ldap and courier using authldap
for virtual users.  What we've been unable to figure out is why courier
is making connections to our other ldap server (the mail LDAP tree is

We've gone through the courier authlib, authldap is definitely the only
module that should be active.  We tried modifying the pam stack files
courier installed by default to no avail.  Does anyone have an answer as
to why courier would need these connections?

served via localhost to the courier server).

You probably have LDAP_GLOB_UID and LDAP_GLOB_GID set. Mapping them to numeric uid and gid requires a call to getpwnam() and getgrnam().

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