[K12OSN] SME & LDAP

[Brian Chivers]

Dean Mumby wrote:
> Brian Chivers wrote:
> 
>> Jason Ingalls wrote:
>>
>>> I'm setting up an SME server for use as a student webmail server. We 
>>> already
>>> have an existing LDAP server (RHEL 4), is there any way to make SME
>>> authenticate against our already existing LDAP for email user accounts??
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>> You should be able to do this using the pam_ldap & nss_ldap packages.
>>
>> On our Suse 9.1 server it's just a config in YASY or Fedora core I 
>> just ran "setup" and then went into the authentication section and set 
>> things up.
>>
>> Brian
>>
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> That sounds fine , but I dont believe it will work for sme as how would 
> the user directories be created. All the web mail /imap folders are 
> created by the subroutines when a user is created in the server-manager.
> Dean
> 
> 
> 
Have a look at the other post on the list about none existing users, it 
listed a pam_mkhomedir (might be wrong) this might help.

Brian

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