Jimmy Ott wrote: > > you are right, if the homedirectory attribute is also used for other > things. but i just hosting email virtual users on my server, and they > don't need the homedirectory attribute. so i thought to keep the ldap > directory tighter and without any duplicate information. > > at the moment i use the homedirectory attribute exactly like you described.
Well, do a quick basic cost/benefit analysis. First, what are the ongoing costs of your current practice? Is there extra effort involved in filling in the homeDirectory attribute? Do you have to regularly check for discrepancies between homeDirectory and the mail address? Are there other operating problems caused by storing homeDirectory? I'm inclined to believe that there aren't, and your costs are roughly nil. Then consider the cost of the change. First, you're investing your time researching the level of support for the change among all of the software currently using your directory. Then there will be the effort of retooling your management software, testing all of your applications, and rolling out into production. And what's your benefit? You're going to save about 50 bytes per user in your directory. The return on that investment seems exceedingly small. > correct me if i'm wrong, is my effort a step in the wrong direction? Not necessarily. Education is worthwhile, and you'll probably learn more about LDAP from exercises like this one. However, unless that's the point of the exercise, then you're probably wasting time that you could have spent solving more interesting problems. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
