[Kolab-devel] Active Directory synchronization in Kolab 2

[Martin Konold]

Am Montag 19 September 2005 14:25 schrieb Henning Holtschneider:

Hi,

> 2. As far as I know, the plaintext password is needed to log into the
> POP3/IMAP server (the connection is being encrypted, but the password is
> still sent "as is"). But the AD user password in only available encrypted
> on a Windows machine. So, for true AD integration on the client side, we
> either need some kind of Kerberos authentication on the IMAP server

This needs to be integrated into SASL on the server side. Then there is no 
need to modify any client.

Regards,
-- martin

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