From: Tony Earnshaw (tonyebilly.demon.nl)
Date: Mon Aug 01 2005 - 04:32:07 CDT

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man, 01.08.2005 kl. 08.59 skrev jay alvarez:

> I just finished reading the instructions on
> postfix-ldap howto, and found out that the web only
> shows how to configure ldap for virtual domain/address
> lookups only. Is there an ldap setup for postfix
> wherein user's doesn't have an actual account in the
> machine and also, such that their usernames and
> passwords as well as mailbox directories will be
> querried from ldap?

Yes, my site's using such a setup - however, since users have login
accounts on other machines in the network than the Postfix server, all
users have Posix UIDs and GIDs. This last isn't necessary, though, for
Postfix using LDAP-based accounts (see VIRTUAL_README.html).

> As far as I can understand the
> Postfix LDAP Howto, only aliases are being retrieve in
> the ldap but the mail will always end up into an
> actual user account in the machine where ldap is
> running..

1: It's not so that only aliases are possible;
2: LDAP doesn't have to be running on the same machine that the users'
accounts are on.

> Any idea? Thanks!

I'm not sure what your problem is. LDAP lookups are exactly the same as
other table lookups - the basic idea is that a key/value pair is
returned for any lookup. All that's different is the way that it's done.

--Tonni

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