> Eric Shubert wrote:
> >>
> >
> > Wait a minute. I might be going to sound like an idiot here, but I'll
> > take that chance.
> >
> > LDAP is a protocol, not an implementation. You can implement LDAP with
> > a mysql backend, can you not? If so, why couldn't you have a mysql
> > database that serves both vpopmail and ldap at the same time? I guess
> > it'd be a matter of mapping the database schemas together somehow. If
> > the schemas could not be merged together (a good chance of that I
> > expect, as the vpopmail database isn't normalized well at all), worse
> > case scenario would be having to run a process periodically that maps
> > one schema (probably ldap) on to the other (probably vpopmail). In
> > that way, you could share authentication data like John is looking to do.
> >
> > Does this make any sense at all?
> >
>
> It makes sense, but to make a couple points clear at this point in
> time, when you want LDAP for Qmail it then becomes an
> implementation. Sure, you could change the backend to serve both
> vpopmail and LDAP, but that would be a major rewrite if you wanted
> to use the same db for the backend. Can you tie them together? Sure.
> The database is just a bunch of information. How you pull that info
> and serve it for your app is up to you and is only limited by your
> imagination. I could see a daemon that pulled some data from a
> vpopmail database (either appending extra data to the DB entries
> since vpopmail will ignore the extra data anyway or using another DB
> tableset for this) that served it up in an LDAP format. Interesting
> idea really.
What about building a script to populate the mysql backend upon
creation of a new ldap user? I'm thinking the script would pull the
information from the newest user and then use mysql commands to insert that
info as a new record in mysql. But that might be harder than it sounds. Just a
thought.
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