Quite realistic, its like NIS and NIS+ from Sun they are used for more than just
authentication, FNS part of Sun's NIS+ was (if I am not wrong) was used for printing
supports and a whole load of other stuff, LDAP is the best way to go and I once heard
rumours that they are going to phase out NIS/NIS+ for LDAP. I am sure that you will
have to use the pam ldap module for some of these services RedHat Linux supports LDAP
authentication systems ( you can add the required stuff in for bindDN and bindPW)
during install.
Here at the University of Lethbridge they have Netscape software which looks like its
going to be phased out slowly, but stuff like mail, webmail depends on LDAP, so does
the calendaring server and things like that, this all depends on LDAP. Even M$ crappy
OS (if you can call it that) uses LDAP based technologies in its ADS system. I think
that LDAP will do samba (support it already there), ftp via pam ldap modules and mail
directly via OpenLDAP libraries for Courier, we use Exim for smtp which can use
Netscape LDAP libs, Sun ldap lib or the OpenLDAP ones versions 1.x and 2.x
Cheers,
Aly.
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>
> 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.
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