Misc question about LDAP and admin stuff

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 23:28 +0200, Per-Olov Sjöholm wrote:
> On Thursday 21 July 2005 16.17, Igor Brezac wrote:
> > On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Per-Olov [iso-8859-1] Sjöholm wrote:
> > > Hi list
> > >
> > > Does anybody know if there are any work going on to implement the stuff
> > > that the third party cyrusmaster requires to work and extend the LDAP
> > > support in cyrus imapd? If not... Is there any work at all going on to
> > > add good LDAP or MySQL support? I really love cyrus imapd but think it
> > > lacks some stuff when it comes to LDAP or MySQL support.
> >
> > Can you be more specific?
> >
> 
> Your'e right...
> 
> I am not just talking  about LDAP auth using any PAM stuff.
> Cyrus imapd in not directly LDAP friendly. Let's say you want to put quota 
> info in LDAP. And in huge installations you maybe want to put as much info as 
> possible into a central repository using LDAP protocol. And not just quota,  
> maybe alternate e-mail adresses and more.  My question is just because I am 
> interested to know if there is any work going on to make is more LDAP 
> friendly. And the main reason for asking is because the cyrusmaster project 
> has extended cyrus to contain some of this stuff. 
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I have alternative addresses in my LDAP DSA and cyrus-imapd works fine.
You have to set the filter.

I keep the quota's in cyrus - not in LDAP. Can't see much reason to
alter that.

If you use LDAP and are accustomed to tuning applications to use LDAP,
cyrus-imap is more than agreeable.

Craig

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