Re: [tpop3d-discuss] ldap virtual auth plugin : near release

[Chris Lightfoot]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 02:43:51AM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:31:50AM +0000, Chris Lightfoot wrote:
> > ... And a general question. Wouldn't it be better to allow
> > the administrator to specify the whole LDAP filter
> > strings, based on insertions like $(user) etc., in the
> > config file? Then your scheme would be represented by
> > 
> >     auth-ldap-filter:   (mail=$(local_part)@$(domain))
> > 
> > and other users could invent whatever filters they wanted?
> 
> Another technique in LDAP is to store the filters themselves in some
> part of the directory. This removes the need for config file editing,
> server restarts etc and provides the opportunity for dynamic directory
> structures.

Ah-- is there a standard format for the filters and
substitution strings? I suppose it's reasonable to have
a different one for each piece of software....

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