That's exactly what I wanted to explain, but I did not find the right words.
Thanks :-) Bastian Kirchner sent from my iPhone Am 30.10.2010 um 11:58 schrieb Martin Rabl <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > Am 30.10.2010 um 11:27 schrieb Bastian Kirchner: >> the bindPassword is the password of the LDAP account defined in bindDN. The >> bindDN is the ldap account SOGo uses for LDAP queries. > I'm not so firm with LDAP, but got it run with SOGo ... but I will give it a > try to explain in my words: > > This account (bindUser/bindPassword) is a technical user for connecting to > LDAP. The user authentication will be managed by the technical user after > login with it; it will send the user credentials to the ldap server as a LDAP > query. > > Albert says, they use LDAP for authentication users, I think they use it > directly with bind - when a server accept the given user credentials, the > user is authenticated (a cheap ;-) way for authentication). > > SOGo prefers IMHO the "good" way by let the technical user make a LDAP query > for Auth. > > Hope, what I wrote, is not totally wrong ... ;-)) > > Greetings, > Martin-- > [email protected] > https://inverse.ca/sogo/lists -- [email protected] https://inverse.ca/sogo/lists
