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    3 Winbind mechanisms
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    7 Dovecot supports NTLM and GSS-SPNEGO authentication mechanisms using Samba [None]'s winbind daemon. It is useful when you need to authenticate users against a Windows domain (either AD or NT). This feature exists only in Dovecot v1.1. For v1.0 you can get it as a patch [None]. 
    8 By default NTLM mechanism is handled internally. You can use winbind instead by setting: 
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   10 ---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
   11 auth_ntlm_use_winbind = yes
   12 ---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
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   14 The usernames, returned by winbind, can contain some domain part (either "DOMAIN\user" or "user@example.com [None]"). Such usernames are always transformed to the form of "user@domain". To strip domain part (to obtain corresponding local username, for example), set: 
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   16 ---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
   17 auth_username_format = %n
   18 ---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
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   20 Dovecot needs path to Samba's 'ntlm_auth' binary to perform the authentication. You can change the path with: 
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   22 ---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
   23 auth_winbind_helper_path = /usr/bin/ntlm_auth
   24 ---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
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   26 Dovecot currently does blocking lookups, so if 'ntlm_auth' is slow on responding (e.g. network problems), Dovecot blocks all other authentication requests until it's finished. 
   27 (This file was created from the wiki on 2007-12-11 04:42)