On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Edwin Culp wrote:
> Quoting Rune Prytz Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Roel van Meer wrote:
> >
> > > Rune Prytz Anderson wrote:
> > >
> > > > I started out at www.lifewithqmail.org/ldap. I then noticed that
> > > > courier-imap was a component of a larger software with the same
> > posibility
> > > > to do ldap authentication and sice I'm new to this I thought I it would
> > > > be easier to get everyting to work with courier instead of a bunch of
> > > > diffrent programs working together. But since there is no really howto
> > on
> > > > courier and ldap it seems to be alot harder...
> > >
> > > The specifics of configuring courier for use with ldap and populating
> > > ldap for use with courier may be documented in the
> > > LDAP-Implementation-HOWTO of the LDP. If you would like to contribute it
> > > there, i'd be pleased.
> > >
> > > > What I'm looking for is some help with how the ldap-database is to be
> > > > structured. The courier configfiles are quiet easy to figure out.
> > >
> > > What exactly are your goals? The design of an LDAP database depends for
> > > a great deal of its intended use. It's possible to provide people with
> > > example entries, but it's really hard to make a generic document and a
> > > specific application and bring them together.
> >
> > The goals is to get it work in a rather small scale. About 100 mailusers.
> > I guess the idea is to have ONE big database to support samba, ftp and
> > mail with login authentication. Don't know if thats realistic.
>
> Doesn't sound like a problem until you approach maybe 100 time that many
> users. Proftpd and courier have no problems with very simple and similar
> schemas. I'm not sure about samba but I will check their schema. Will
> you be migrating from an /etc/[passwd|master.passwd|shadow|etc.]? Have
> you looked at and or tested the schema that I sent? I suggest that you
> use openldap2.0.23. Do you have it working?
I've got openldap 2.0.xx running. And no, I'm nog going to migrate from
passwd.
I missed your attachment. I'm looking in to right now.
Do you hade proftpd and courier running of the same database?
Rune
>
> ed
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > > > I would certainly try to
> > > > > contribute if Rune will help us with a starting point as I'm sure
> > many
> > > > > others will. I doubt that many of us have the time to do a complete
> > > > > HowTo by ourselves.
> > >
> > > You said it. Right now, i'm trying to get the ldap-impl-howto back on
> > > track, but due to a lack of time it's going slow. It might be wise to
> > > cooperate efforts?
> > Yep. I like to help out with the howto as much as I can.
> >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > rolek
> > >
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