Thanks, Ken. One of the things I love about open source software is the
ability to actually get answers from the authors rather than some first
tier tech-support guy reading answers off 3X5 cards.
Any feeling for the relative performance of LDAP v. MySQL? The other
admins would like to go that way because LDAP can talk to RADIUS and
PAM, thus handling all of our authentication needs. If, however, MySQL
is significantly faster, I think I could convince them to let me do my
own thing and run mail off MySQL.
We do have Oracle as well, if that's any better than MySQL for this kind
of thing...
Thanks,
Ben
On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 11:43:36AM -0600, Ken Jones wrote:
> Ben Beuchler wrote:
> >
> > I've been hearing a lot lately about the wonders of the MySQL
> > authentication system, but very little about LDAP. How well devloped
> > are the LDAP capabilities of vpopmail? Is anyone using them in heavy
> > production? Does LDAP authentication offer the same features as MySQL
> > authentication, like creating a user just by creating their table?
> >
> > We're considering migrating all of our authentication needs to LDAP and
> > since mail is one of our largest services, how well vpop talks to LDAP
> > will be a major factor.
>
> vpopmail works great with LDAP. All of the vpopmail features are
> available
> in the LDAP module.
>
> >From a programmers point of view, LDAP sucks. With mysql I can make one
> call, send one packet to the mysql server and get back my answer.
>
> With LDAP multiple calls are needed.
>
> LDAP is like XML, in my opinion. It doesn't solve anything. All it does
> is remove the data definition to the front end of the development
> process. It doesn't help in any way.
>
> For example, the LDAP definition for the qmail-ldap project is not
> standard.
> In fact there is no standard. For vpopmail we put in our own definition
> based on what we needed.
>
> On the back end of LDAP it has a database. The default database of LDAP
> is far inferior to mysql.
>
> With mysql you get the wonder SQL language with a well defined API for
> programmers.
>
> In my opinion LDAP is another "Magic Bullet" idea. It's supposed to
> solve
> all your problems, except it doesn't. It is over hyped.
>
> </flame> ;]
>
> Ken Jones
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