Re: [Postfixadmin-devel] postfixadmin with ldap

[Vikas P. <par...@gm...>]

Hi Robert/Boltz,

Thanks for your support.

Actually, i have done it for one of my client in which i have put a elif
condition and call the ldap query there. i don't think so it's a right
thing to go ahead. Personally, i want to write a plugin that we can easily
attached just like a patch.

Hope, i shall give you some good news soon.

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rg...@ht...>
wrote:

>
> 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
>>
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