Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] New app: sysmailadmin

[Chris Weiss]

that's all good and fine IF you want to and are able to run a LDAP server.



Philipp Kamps (address@hidden) wrote:
>
> Zitat von Dave Hall <address@hidden>:
>
> > Heya Chris,
> >
> > Maybe we could roll this into the new ldap accounts admin app from
> > probiz and lex and myself are also working on.
> >
>
> In fact, the new 'ldap account admin' already can handle standard UNIX and
> phpGW accounts.
> Let's say you chose 'ou=people,dc=probusiness,dc=de' as baseDN for your
> accounts, the admin user interface for accounts will show all kind of
> accounts in this basedn (standard UNIX accounts and phpgw accounts).
> You may recognize the different type of accounts by the first- and lastname.
> (Standard unix accounts do not save these information).
> So if an administrator wants a standard UNIX account to become a phpgw
> account, he simply have to edit this account and save it.
> It automatically add the phpgw information to this LDAP entry.
>
> So for the second feature of the forum thread:
> 'autoadd accounts to phpgw if the unix user exists via mail auth'
>
> it also should work with the existing functionality of the phpgw.
> An administrator may enable the autoadd feature in the setup routine.
> So if a user successfully authenticate via 'mail auth', 'ldap' or what
> ever, an accounts automatically will add to LDAP.
> (in fact the method for this feature still has to be patched for the
> new LDAP support - on my todo list for next week)
>
> But all this LDAP stuff won't help you if only want to save UNIX accounts
> in the /etc/passwd file.
>
> For all the LDAP details have a look here:
> http://forums.phpgroupware.org/index.php?
> t=msg&th=150&start=0&rid=38&S=5755be7000a69157a2e95d3b6ec65716
>
>
> Any comments and bug reports are very welcome.
>
> Cheers,
>   fips @ probiz
>
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