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Re: nss_ldap and pam_ldap


From: joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 18:51:08 +0200
Mail-followup-to: users@crater.dragonflybsd.org

On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 02:20:01AM +1000, Petr Janda wrote:
> > Both can and should be used without PAM and NSS. Checkout the virtual
> > user configuration in postfix where you can specify a mapping of
> > mail address to uid, gid and mailbox name (no direct system user
> >involved!). Using different uids and gids is handy for quotas, but not
> > necessary. Similiar for dovecot.
> 
> Well, what I was planning to do is create home directories for those users so 
> the mail can be delivered to them. Just how will postfix retrieve the 
> homeDirectory object from LDAP? I know nss does this, but im not sure how to 
> program Postifix to do this. How to tell postfix which homedir to deliver 
> mail to?

If you follow the suggested route and use virtual domain mappings, you
just configure a LDAP map to return the homeDirectory + "/Maildir" or
whatever.

Joerg



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