AW: ldap server seperate from mail server?

[Kurz, Robert]

Hi jbsd-junkie,

 

the question is: why not?

you have to set the appropiate conf-files on the qmail-ldap-server (ldapserver, ldappassword and ldapuid) and on your ldap-server, there must be the account for the qmail-user.

all this is in the docs of qmail-ldap and in life-with-qmail-ldap:

 

 

8.1.1.5. ldapserver

Your ldap server's hostname. If you want more than one ldap-server for redundancy, use a space separated list of hostnames. You can append a port number if your LDAP server does not run on its default port 389.

  ldap.example.com:389 ldap2.example.com:389

Required.

8.1.1.6. ldaplogin

If you need to authentificate against your ldap server to retrieve the user information, this is the username to do so. Note: this is a ldap dn, not a unix username.

Default: NULL (do not authentificate)

   echo "cn=root, o=yourcorp, c=de" > ldaplogin

8.1.1.7. ldappassword

The password for the user defined in ldaplogin if needed. Cleartext, so this file should be owned by root and mode 600.

Default: NULL

... (taken from "http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ldap/")

 

 

 

 

hope, this helps. i have it running this way on 4 mailservers with 2 ldap-servers on special machines very fine for about one year...

 

bye

robert

 

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Betreff: ldap server seperate from mail server?

Is it possible to have the ldap server on a separate machine other than the one qmail is running on?

I already have a fresh openldap 2.1.12 server running on another host  and would like to use it. Is there any instructions on how to achieve this as i am reading life with qmail-ldap and from what i can tell its referring to ldap being on the mail server. I have just finished installing openbsd for the mail server, removed sendmail, installed openldap * for the libraries i guess but i don't want to run dap services on this machine, installed daemon tools and tcp-server with the ssl patch, downloaded qmail and patched with the ldap patch. I have copied the qmail.schema over to the other host running ldap. The next step from the guide says to:

4.4. Configuration

Now that you have the schema loaded, a little system configuration is needed. I am going to discuss virtual user accounts, meaning that there are no home directories or /etc/passwd accounts for users on the mail server. After all, this is a mail server and not a user playground.

This involves setting a few control files:

     - edit /etc/passwd and add:  vmail:x:11184:2110::/var/qmail/maildirs/:/bin/true

     - edit /etc/group and add:   vmail::2110

     - mkdir /var/qmail/maildirs

     - chown -R vmail:vmail /var/qmail/maildirs

     - cd /var/qmail/control

     - Create the following control files with specified contents in /var/qmail/control:

          defaultdelivery:
          ./Maildir/

          ldapmessagestore:
          /var/qmail/maildirs

          ldapgid:
          2110

          ldapuid:
          11184

Does all the above still have to be on the ldap server?

If anyone has a install like this please advise.

thanks.