Thanks for the reply. Hmmm....
> 1. I would provide Asterisk its own LDAP directory and synchronize > it with entreprise directory as I think it should be simpler to > synchronize 2 LDAP directories than coordinate Asterisk and Active > Directory evolutions. This may work, but my end goal is really to simplify, not complicate. If I can't get the information I need for sip users etc from ldap then I'll just have to skip it... I need to not be the only person that can manage whatever setup I end up with. : ( > 2. IMHO, many people are confusing SIP secrets (from sip.conf) which > somehow authenticate hardware with user passwords which authenticate > persons. I wouldn't try to make those 2 values equal. Hmm, once again with the integration and the simplifying, one of the biggest reasons I want access to ldap is to be able to authenticate there, I really don't want to introduce another place to manage authentication. Most of my users will be using sip phones and I don't want to give them another user/password combo to remember. : ( > 3. Asterisk's LDAP directory should be the reference for anything > related to telephony. Changes could be automatically propagated from > Asterisk to corporate directory. > > 4. Corporate directory should be the reference for user management. > Changes should be manually propagated from corporate directory to > Asterisk as I don't believe it could be easy to allocate nor free > telephony resources whenever a user is created or deleted in > corporate directory. Not quite sure I follow here... If a user was deleted from my ldap directory, the corresponding sip phone should fail registration, right? Having thought some more about my issue I think I can perhaps ask my question more succinctly: is it possible to get dynamic (or "realtime") data from ldap within the various .conf files? If there is not a convenient function for getting this in the .conf files, what if I somehow specified a global variable within the res_ldap.conf and referenced that value inside the other .conf files? Is this possible? Sorry if these are very basic questions, I just haven't been able to find answers to them. : ( Brendan _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
