Yes, having LDAP groups would make shared mailboxes usable in our 
organization without adding a great deal of administration overhead as 
it would without LDAP.

Todd Nemanich wrote:

> I actually have some code to do LDAP based groups. It is not 
> excessively flexible, because I don't really know LDAP. But I'm sure 
> it could be easily adapted to take the search constraints as a 
> configuration option. Is anyone interested in this?
>
> Lawrence Greenfield wrote:
>
>>    From: "Tim Pushor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>    Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 14:38:31 -0700
>>
>>    While we are talking about taking cyrus and SASL to the next 
>> level, is there
>>    any plan to remove the dependance that Cyrus has on UNIX groups 
>> for group
>>    based ACL's?
>>
>> Well, it doesn't.  It can also use the AFS PTS server for groups.
>> We (CMU) haven't written anything else because we haven't yet needed
>> anything else.  I can easily imagine an LDAP authorization module
>> working much the same way the PTS authorization module works, and it's
>> something we'll probably look into doing, but only when we really feel
>> the need.
>>
>> It shouldn't be all that hard for someone else to write such an LDAP
>> authorization module.
>>
>> Larry
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>


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