Re: [tpop3d-discuss] ldap virtual auth plugin : near release

[Paul Makepeace]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:45:42AM +0000, Chris Lightfoot wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 02:43:51AM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:31:50AM +0000, Chris Lightfoot wrote:
> > > ... And a general question. Wouldn't it be better to allow
> > > the administrator to specify the whole LDAP filter
> > > strings, based on insertions like $(user) etc., in the
> > > config file? Then your scheme would be represented by
> > > 
> > >     auth-ldap-filter:   (mail=$(local_part)@$(domain))
> > > 
> > > and other users could invent whatever filters they wanted?
> > 
> > Another technique in LDAP is to store the filters themselves in some
> > part of the directory. This removes the need for config file editing,
> > server restarts etc and provides the opportunity for dynamic directory
> > structures.
> 
> Ah-- is there a standard format for the filters and
> substitution strings?

The filters are standard LDAP and anything beyond that is your own
devising -- I was really giving the example as an illustration of some
other way of storing configuration data rather than in a text file
somewhere which, in some cases, may reduce flexibility.

Paul

> I suppose it's reasonable to have
> a different one for each piece of software....
> 
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