What I need is for my Cobalt RaQ users to be able to authenticate against my Postfix server for SMTP, which uses a 2.3.20 server now. In case you not aware, the Cobalt RaQ 4 is a Linux 2.2 based server appliance by Sun. There is the openldap-1.2.9-6 package installed on the system, but I believe I tested one of these with openldap2 a while back and was able to get it running, I think it was 2.0.27, I would have to try 2.3 now.
My question is about migration of these users in a standard unix passwd file. I understand there is a tool from PADL, but I also understand there is back_passwd module. I am wondering if my goal should be to migrate all to my 2.3 version already running on a FreeBSD server or provide the passwd backend and setup Postfix to talk to each RaQ server as well for authentication. The Cobalt is currently the user management server, for me to avoid building another user management GUI, I could hack the cgi GUI to pass password changes to the 2.3 server or, again, is the passwd backend the way to go? Just looking for advice, thanks in advance. -- Robert