If you are using Active Directory, you can use the Microsoft Certificate Services to generate an SSL certificate suitable for use in an office environment. This page will show you how to request a certificate from the Microsoft Certificate Services for use in a web server.
(more…)This page will show you how to configure the ldap-chpasswd included in the SquirrelMail Change Password plugin. The ldap-chpasswd can change an Active Directory or LDAP server password. If you have not yet installed this plugin, see the SquirrelMail Change Password Howto.
(more…)To communicate with the Active Directory server over the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), you need an SSL enabled server and an SSL certificate for the client. SSL communication is required to programmatically change the Active Directory password. This page will show you how to export an SSL certificate from an SSL enabled Windows Server 2003 to use the LDAP API over SSL. If you have not yet configured SSL, see Enable LDAP SSL with Active Directory.
(more…)SSL communication is required to programmatically change the Active Directory password using LDAP. This page will show you how to install the Certificate Services to enable LDAP SSL in Active Directory.
(more…)The Postfix Cyrus SASL support is used to authenticate remote SMTP clients to the Postfix SMTP server. Thanks to the Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) in Linux, we can configure Cyrus SASL to delegate the authentication process to an Active Directory server.
(more…)LDAP authentication is available in Dovecot starting version 1.0. Since Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services, we can use the LDAP authentication to authenticate Dovecot against an Active Directory server. But for users of Dovecot prior to 1.0 or those having problems with LDAP authentication, we can instead use the Kerberos authentication mechanism in Windows via the Linux PAM.
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Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use primarily in Windows environments. Microsoft provides a set of graphical tools to manage Active Directory so we don’t have to deal with LDAP concepts like distinguished names, attributes, schemas, etc. The provided tools are good, but there are certain instances in which we need to deal with LDAP directly to be able to perform tasks the tools does not provide.This page will show you how to setup your Outlook 2003 address book to retrieve contact information from an Active Directory server as long as the attributes below are set.
(more…)Before using SquirrelMail, the user should first fill in at least the name and email address in the Personal Information option. But we can eliminate this step by using the RetrieveUserData plugin to retrieve this information from a variety of sources and automatically update this information.
(more…)If you are querying a Windows 2003 Active Directory, some query operations does not work. This is because certain queries performs anonymous LDAP operations even if you have binded your connection. To fix this problem, you have to implement the change specified in the Microsoft Knowledge Base at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326690. The steps below describes one way to implement this change using ADSI Edit included in the Windows Server 2003 Support Tools.
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