On 7.3.2005, at 12:49, Thomas Hummel wrote:
So we're planning (in fact are about to) patch dovecot-1.x in order to take those LDAP attribute (matching the TCB field of interest to us) into account. To do so, we wrote some documentation (still in a draft state) to extend our understanding of dovecot architecture and authentication process.
Of course, we're going to give it (patch + doc) back to you and make it freely available. But we'd like to know if you :
- were already working on such a patch or planning to do so
I wasn't, and I doubt anyone else was either.
- were interested, once done (by us or you) to include it into the official release, since it could interest some other person who runs digital unix with TCB authentication
I'm not sure if I understood this correctly. How does TCB and LDAP fit together? Does TCB simply provide LDAP view for its data? So is your patch only about handling the extra LDAP fields, or is it about providing some completely TCB-specific code (and LDAP being something else)?
In any case, if it's entirely TCB-specific I doubt I'd include it in the release, as there would be only a few users for it. I could put it in the web site though and add some pointers in documentation that there are other authentication plugins available as well.