[Dovecot] Re: dovecot ldap auth bind and different directories

[Andrés Pereira]

Andrew Bates wrote:
> I have recently begun playing with Dovecot (1.0.beta8) and have run into
> an interesting scenario.
> 
> The way my email system is set up is that users of different domains
> have completely different base dn's.  For instance, if a user is part of
> test.com the bind dn would be uid=user,ou=People,dc=test,dc=com.  The
> bind dn for user at domain.com would be uid=user,ou=People,dc=domain,dc=com.
> 
> I could not seem to figure out a way to have the binddn adjusted based
> on a user's @domain so I modified auth-request.c and var-expand.c to
> include a new variable expansion concept.  In the configuration I'm now
> able to include the following:
> auth_bind_userdn = uid=%n,ou=People,dc=%c2,dc=%c1
> 
> and %c1 will be expanded to the tld, %c2 will be expanded to the next
> level domain (domain or test in the above example).  This will work up
> to 9 levels of subdomain (1-9).  This is very similar in how postfix
> expands variables with ldap.
> 

heh, this exactly the same issue i reported in [1] but i didn't provide
a patch for it...this is a really nice feature for dovecot, i hope Timo
can take a look at it.

http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-January/010701.html

Thank you,

-- 
Andrés Pereira

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