No-one has mentioned PAM yet. (pluggable authentication modules). If you implement PAM in Asterisk, then you have LDAP/passwd shadow windows etc. in one step.
Maybe the phone numbers in /etc/passwd will get used! cheers, Woody On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 04:17:15PM -0500, Steven Critchfield wrote: > On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 15:47, Dylan VanHerpen wrote: > > After saying LDAP is a better choice than system users, I still wonder > > why it is important to have users be able to change passwords here. > > > > It would greatly simplify unified messaging: one account, all your > > messages (email, voice, fax) in one mailbox. > > This doesn't mean there needs to be a real account on the system. Exim > can deliver to non login accounts, Cyrus IMAP doesn't need real user > accounts, and I forget the pop3 daemon that works the same way. Hylafax > doesn't need a user to send you the faxes. So again, you only need some > simple way of keeping user/password mappings straight. LDAP would be > okay, if it was easy enough to setup and use. Not to mention for your > SIP users, LDAP can be used as a phone directory. I hope this helps you > move forward with something usable and secure. > -- > Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- Woody _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
