[nzlug] Biting the Bullet -- Authentication & Email

[Robin Sheat]

On Friday 30 March 2007 11:12:17 Leon Matthews wrote:
> What's the best approach for handling authentication for a wee little
> office like ours?  Is LDAP overkill?  Is NSS yesterday's news?  What about
> the UIDs that will appear on the remote server when we do an rsync?
I haven't done this, but I've been meaning to. I'm in a similar situation, we 
have a mix of Linux and Windows, and a few laptops. The way I'd probably do 
it is using LDAP for the desktops, and local accounts on the laptops. LDAP 
should be fairly scalable, and I think just about everything can be made to 
work with it. It's apparently a bit of a dog to set up though (although I 
think mostly for windows clients)

> Also, is it a terrible idea to setup and use an IMAP server as a place just
> to physically store emails?  That is, let 'Evolution' and 'Mac OS Mail'
> handle delivery via our ISPs SMTP servers and our existing POP accounts.
I'd probably run a local mail server on the IMAP server and use that for 
sending. Setting something up that just forwards from your LAN to your ISP 
mail server is pretty trivial, and it means that if you change ISPs the users 
don't even have to notice. Perhaps use something like fetchmail to pull mail 
from the ISP to the IMAP server. IMAP locally is nice because it means that 
the mail can be synchronised between multiple computers easily. (Although, 
we've just moved to 'Google Apps for your domain' for work email and 
calendaring)

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