pam ldap auth

[Kevin J. Menard, Jr.]

Hey guys,

    I'm trying to authenticate using PAM LDAP.  I use a debian system, with
    mostly debs from woody.  However, I built Cyrus 2.0.14 from source,
    since the debian packages are horribly out of date.

    I set up SASL to use PAM in imapd.conf, but cyradm cannot use a user
    from LDAP for some reason.  So, my question is, is NSS LDAP necessary to
    get all this working?  I didn't want to use it, due to the large number
    of people saying how buggy it was, and I didn't see a need for it (I
    don't see myself needing to do any lookups other than uid and
    userPassword).  But maybe I'm missing something.

    And does the user cyrus need to be in any special groups to authenticate
    via PAM against LDAP (though I've tried nearly everything at this
    point).

    Thanks for any and all info.

-- 
 Kevin