Active Directory


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.

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Enabling SSL in Active Directory allows clients to communicate securely with AD servers. This is also required to allow a user’s Active Directory password to be changed programmatically using LDAP.

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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.

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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 Users and ComputersActive 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.
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This article 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.

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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.

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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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This guide will show you how to integrate Active Directory/LDAP into the SquirrelMail addressbook. In this article, you will learn how to configure SquirrelMail to activate the Javascript addressbook and to include your Active Directory or LDAP server into the addressbook lookup list.

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This guide will show you how to integrate Active Directory/LDAP into Postfix and Dovecot. In this page, you will learn how to enable Postfix to lookup email addresses in LDAP and how to enable Dovecot to authenticate to an LDAP server.

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