On 4.10.2006, at 5:46, Ted Targosz wrote:
well, i certainly agree with your concept. I very much wanted to
have a
"pure" LDAP for authentication when I set up my company's cyrus server
last year, but since it was my first implementation of web-
cyradmin , I
decided to go with the simple, default arrangement (everything in
mysql)
and no LDAP...
That Is indeed the easiest way, but it shouldn't be too hard to
migrate from mysql to ldap afterwards. I have to do some scripts for
myself at least.
I think the beauty of doing a conventional LDAP for authentication is
that you could use that LDAP database to authenticate all sorts of
other
services besides email...
That's why I'm planning this too. Many applications are able to
authenticate users via imap (or imaps), but I don't think imap itself
offers a way to change password, where as ldap does. And I don't
think it's "right" to use imap as authentication method, that would
require that the user has imap account. LDAP just is widespread
standard for authentication and doesn't by itself depend on any
database backend, which is good
but keep in mind, i'm just an engineer...and not much of a programmer,
so i have no idea how difficult that might be to do...
And I'm only just studying to be an engineer :). But I have been
programmer for few years and know php quite well. As it has been
discussed earlier on this mailing list (I searched the archives..),
there's quite a few ways implementing LDAP authentication in PHP. PHP
offers very well documented LDAP-functions natively, and PEAR-project
offers at least two way to do it via it's abstraction layer. I think
they all need ldap-support in php, and for the lack of documentation
on the pear-"ways" (and since they were on beta-stage last time I
checked) I'm trying the native php way first. If it works, then
perhaps checking the pear-thing out. I'm planning to add a
configuration directive for authentication type, so you can easily
switch between mysql and ldap authentication. I'll let you all know
when I have something working. Might take a while, school is taking
lot of time resources at the moment.
Mikko Toivola
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