[Samba] samba auth against imap?

I had a VP in our company ask today if it was possible to use the same
id's and passwords as our mail server. Now if it was LDA based, no
problem.....

But I was just curious if there was some sort of authentication method
to authenticate samba shares against an IMAP server? I have seen a few
other pieces of software use imap authentication. I have security
concerns over this method, but just wanted to see if it was even
possible. I have been google searching, but no real answers yet.

Thanks in advance,.

dnk
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dnk wrote:
> I had a VP in our company ask today if it was possible to use the same
> id's and passwords as our mail server. Now if it was LDA based, no
> problem.....
> <snip>
The short answer is "no". The longer answer is: you could possibly hack
something up but it would require disabling encrypted passwords, which
requires changes on each client and reduces security. Sounds like a good
time to ask for money to develop an LDAP based system :)

*Michael Heydon - IT Administrator *
michaelh@jaswin.com.au <mailto:michaelh@jaswin.com.au>

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