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

Prune prune at lecentre.net
Thu, 21 Feb 2002 11:34:20 +0100


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?
>

this would be a realy good idea. I made it simple for the firt time.
This would improve the configuration by joining many configuration 
attributes.

The 'problem' is that we split the login in local_part and domain, to 
rejoin it after :)

I'll answer your other mail.
What about integrating the plugins as is, then I'll made needed changes ?

Cheers,

Prune