Re: Kolab and LDAP (was Re: Suggestion for SME...)

On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Charlie Brady wrote:

>
> On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Brad Hards wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 20:46 pm, Klaus J. Mueller wrote:
> > > Hm? For what I understand kolab would make a great extension to e-smith.
> <
> > The kolab implementation is very tightly tied to the concept of "everything in
> > LDAP", while e-smith runs its own configuration database in Perl.
>
> It wouldn't be too much of a stretch of the imagination to think of the
> e-smith configuration being stored in LDAP. You'd only need to rewrite a
> few perl classes, and bootstrap the process.
>
> I notice there were some Kolab related modules released on CPAN recently.
> Unfortunately (and surprisingly) the documentation is rather skeletal,
> see, e.g.:
>
> http://search.cpan.org/~stephanb/Kolab-LDAP-0.01/
>
> [I thought CPAN enforced QA standards?]
>
> --
> Charlie Brady                         [email protected]

I have often wondered why SME didn't do this and have had quite a bit of
experiance doing this on my own using sme as a base. I would love to work
with folks on this if this is a direction that is being decided on.

-- 
Donovan Arellano   | email: [email protected]


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