As many of you know, I’m out of a job here by October 31, 2003. That looks much, much closer on this side of September than it did before! That’s only 29 days away. My goal is to walk onto a new job Nov 3, 2003. Here’s hoping. And I’m working my butt off to get there 🙂
Anyway, one of my final projects here is to get some LDAP integration into our Postfix gateway so people won’t have to muck so much with configuration files. That’s all well and good, but it seems sometimes much tougher than it really is. So I had pointed out to me this HOWTO that runs right through it. The principal difference between the way he’s doing it, and the way I’m doing it, is that he’s checking the attributes of users directly, whereas I’m adjusting aliases & stuff in an “ou=System” category so that the system configuration is a bit more separate from the user config. The main reason for this is that our users internal email addresses don’t match their external, “address book” email addresses.
It’s a bit of a kluge, but it will work out.
I’m also working on integrating our PopTop VPN into our LDAP tree to serve VPN accounts from LDAP as well. It should be an interesting 29 days.