Ben Beuchler wrote:
>
> I've been hearing a lot lately about the wonders of the MySQL
> authentication system, but very little about LDAP. How well devloped
> are the LDAP capabilities of vpopmail? Is anyone using them in heavy
> production? Does LDAP authentication offer the same features as MySQL
> authentication, like creating a user just by creating their table?
>
> We're considering migrating all of our authentication needs to LDAP and
> since mail is one of our largest services, how well vpop talks to LDAP
> will be a major factor.
vpopmail works great with LDAP. All of the vpopmail features are
available
in the LDAP module.
>From a programmers point of view, LDAP sucks. With mysql I can make one
call, send one packet to the mysql server and get back my answer.
With LDAP multiple calls are needed.
LDAP is like XML, in my opinion. It doesn't solve anything. All it does
is remove the data definition to the front end of the development
process. It doesn't help in any way.
For example, the LDAP definition for the qmail-ldap project is not
standard.
In fact there is no standard. For vpopmail we put in our own definition
based on what we needed.
On the back end of LDAP it has a database. The default database of LDAP
is far inferior to mysql.
With mysql you get the wonder SQL language with a well defined API for
programmers.
In my opinion LDAP is another "Magic Bullet" idea. It's supposed to
solve
all your problems, except it doesn't. It is over hyped.
</flame> ;]
Ken Jones
"Live Free, Live GPL"
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