Re: ispman-HEAD tasks cleanup

Wim Kerkhoff wrote:

> Paul Wolstenholme wrote:
>
>> I'm quite new to ispman. I've only been using it for a few months. 
>> The  one major change I've made to my installation revolves around 
>> using  cyrus virtual domains. With this setup, the uid is the same as 
>> their  email address. The changes were not difficult to implement -- 
>> most of  the changes were to ldap templates, control panel, and the 
>> creation of  user directories. If people are interested, I do not 
>> believe it would  be difficult to implement this feature in a way 
>> which would be  compatible with the old model.
>
>
> Any idea what would be involved in migrating from uid's of the format 
> user_domain_told to [email protected]? Currently I have both in LDAP so 
> that users can authenticate either way through 
> PAM/Perdition/SMTP/SSH/etc, except for Sieve - which is requiring 
> user_domain_tld as per the mailboxes.

The "old" format user_domain_tld is still (and probably always) needed 
for LDAP NSS lookups for the OS.
So we have to find a way where both uids live happily together.

Any suggestions/patches going in this direction are welcome and I would 
be happy to test/apply those to the development.

Joerg



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