From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 2 10:42:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA04932 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 10:42:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dove.peace.com.my (peace.com.my [202.184.153.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA04927 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 10:42:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from panda@peace.com.my) Received: from lovebox (love.com.my [202.184.153.17]) by dove.peace.com.my (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA00479 for ; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 02:25:44 +0800 (SGT) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 02:25:44 +0800 (SGT) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19980403024802.009a8840@peace.com.my> X-Sender: panda@peace.com.my X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: chas Subject: Mail-LDAP integration and LDAP support on FreeBSD in general ? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In addition to FBSD machines, we have several Sunboxes ; on these, we run Netscape mail server as opposed to sendmail. I don't like NS mail server but there is one good thing - the ability to use LDAP records for managing and maintaining users. This has the following advantages : - I have only to update users on the LDAP server and all my other machines in the application environment will be updated. (that includes news/mail/web servers and NT servers which can be synchronised) - Transfering/backing up user data is simple and cross platform... export an LDIF file and import it into the new LDAP server. - There is no need for mail users to even have an account on server. (good for security). Since I am moving more and more towards FreeBSD, is there any support for such total user administration via LDAP ? There is slapd (an LDAP server for unix) but the applications (eg. sendmail) are unable to integrate with it. Wouldn't this be particularly appealing to ISPs with their multiple systems ? Any pointers to future developments with LDAP on FreeBSD would be greatly appreciated, Thank you very much, chas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message