Re: [Postfixadmin-devel] postfixadmin with ldap

[Robert M. <rg...@ht...>]

On 11/24/2014 12:49 PM, Christian Boltz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Am Dienstag, 18. November 2014 schrieb Vikas Parashar:
>> Some days back i have written some code to use postfixadmin with ldap
>> backend. But i think before put it on the repo. I want to write a
>> plugin that will help to add the ldap backend with postfixadmin.
> Adding LDAP support sounds like lots of work - basically you need to
> replace all db_*() functions and also need to "translate" the SQL
> queries to something that LDAP understands.
>
> Most queries are built in PFAHandler.php and some db_*() functions
> nowadays, but we still have some hand-written queries here and there.

Oh it is more than that.  All the subsystems that are expecting an sql 
db for the domain and users and vacations and,  would have to be 
changed.  All the postfix, spamassasin, dovecot, amavis-new, 
roundcube,...  Need I go on?

Though one might say that there are already instructions for different 
sql backends for most of these, so an ldap backend would just be one 
more.  As it is, I have heard some rumblings about mariadb.

>
> To make things interesting, LDAP is quite different from SQL.
>
> Don't get me wrong - I don't want to stop you. I just want to warn you
> that this won't be an easy ride ;-)
>
> BTW: list-admin.php, list-domain.php, fetchmail.php and vacation.php
> will be replaced by list.php and edit.php sooner or later, so better
> don't invest time on them.
>
>> Could any body please give me some suggestion or guidelines on it.
> I'm afraid I can't offer a simple receipe ;-) - maybe the easiest way is
> to join the #postfixadmin IRC channel on freenode and to ask there.
> I'm usually there in the (CET) evening (username "cboltz").
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Christian Boltz