Latest Dovecot upstream development version (1.1.alpha...) already has an additional authentication mechanism (src/auth/mech-winbind.c), which allows to perform NTLM and GSS-SPNEGO authentications against Windows domain, by use of Samba's "ntlm_auth" helper and "winbind" daemon. The correspond patch was written by me (initially for dovecot-1.0 tree), then applied upstream for v1.1 . I've backport the final v1.1 implementation to v1.0 as a separate patch, available at http://www.dovecot.org/patches/1.0/dovecot-1.0.3-winbind.patch These new features allow users of "strong" windomain environment to use sa-called "SPA" authentication in their mail program for access to Dovecot and/or Postfix. (Without SPA, the users have to specify login/password manually, and then, either mail servers have to use a separate login database, or users have to change mail account password settings each time they change their domain passwords). The patch is just an "addon", it changes nothing in other parts of Dovecot, hence it could be safely applied for F7 too.
Created attachment 192691 [details] proposed changes for the .spec file
dovecot-1.0.7-2.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update dovecot'
Excellent! Thanks for adding this to F7 as well. P.S. In the next release, please, s/wibnind/winbind/ in %changelog ;)
dovecot-1.0.7-16.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update dovecot'
dovecot-1.0.7-2.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
dovecot-1.0.7-16.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.