Hi,

> FTR, I have also been in the loop for most of this, technically. I am  not 
> yet so well making friends with dropping LDAP as a directory  backend. At 
> least we must be able to control LDAP servers via  AlekSIS's IDM part.

AlekSIS can already do that now.


> wonder, if we could not leave an  LDAP attached to the setup with LDAP not 
> being the primary data  backend for user/host/what-not data, but only a 
> secondary data service  that gets populated by AlekSIS's IDM part. AlekSIS 
> then has the  primary IDM data and knows all information on all its 
> identities  whereas the attached LDAP only receives a subset of information 
> on  users/data/...

I would not do that by default, but we could introduce a "Legacy" profile or 
something that does it on top.


> Use cases, for example: a classical mailserver (e.g. Cyrus-IMAP,  saslauthd, 
> Postfix, etc.).

Dovecot can handle OAuth just fine, and for services that can't, there's always 
PAM.

-nik

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