Re: [Debian-sf-users] LDAP question

[Roland Mas]

David Hirst (2002-11-01 15:13:02 -0500) :

> At the expense of sounding naive, what purpose is ldap serving with
> debian-sf?

  It provides a unified way to make user information public to
subsystems that do not have to know about PostgreSQL.  The two
current uses are the e-mail subsystem (e-mail forwarding, for
<username>@users.sourceforge.<yourdomain> addresses) and account
management (for SSH access, including CVS over SSH access).  Other
uses are possible, for instance you could couple Sourceforge with some
other system (your company time-tracking system, for instance),
although external to Sourceforge for now.

Roland.
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