[Dovecot] Dovecot LDAP schema?

Sergey A. Kobzar tod.zullu at gmail.com
Mon Jul 30 11:43:19 EEST 2007


Hi Hadmut,

Monday, July 30, 2007, 11:27:37 AM, you wrote:

> Hi Sergey,

> Sergey A. Kobzar wrote:
>> 
>> You can use standard LDAP attributes. It's more than enough.


> Well, I know that it works with standard LDAP attributes, that's what I
> do right now. But that is what I want to avoid, because I want to have
> IMAP users *without* standard uid/gid attributes because they are not
> Unix users. To avoid confusion and security holes I'd prefer to use
> separate Attributes for the LDAP objects. And in some cases I need to
> override the default PATH variable, which requires a new attribute. And
> I cannot work with static uid/gid schemes as in your example, because
> every IMAP user is managed by one of several Unix users, therefore they
> cannot share the same uid/gid.

> I can define my own LDAP scheme, what I did in a test environment.

> But I'd prefer if there was a common dovecot scheme for such cases.


There is no such scheme because your case is not common.


> regards
> Hadmut


-- 
Sergey



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