Le Mardi 19 Juillet 2005 00:34, Jay Lee a écrit :
Hi,
I'm still trying to plan out my courier mail setup. Right now i'm
trying to figure out which authentication module i want to use. I
really like the looks of the userdb stuff (really what i'm looking for
is a way to give people mail accounts w/out giving them real
user/shell accounts). so userdb looks perfect in that respect. I've
also thought about ldap authentication... i don't really know anything
about ldap, but i've heard it's very scalable (from the docs i've read
on openldap.org it seems that multiple servers can balance the load).
The setup i have going on here looks like it could get fairly large
(maybe 200,000 users in the long term), but i'm not sure if that
justifies ldap or not (especially since i have no existing ldap
directory). Anyway, it looks like courier is able to handle multiple
authentication schemes quite nicely, so maybe i could go w/ userdb at
first and then if necessary add ldap at a later date. Are my
assumptions wrong?
If there is any chance at all that you may eventually want your users to
have the same username/password for other services (FTP, shell, Web
applications, etc), then by all means, use LDAP. As Sam said, you can
get things going and learn Courier with a simple userdb setup but you
need to start digging into OpenLDAP soon to and tame that beast.
LDAP or MySQL or PostgreSQL. What is the best in term of CPU load ?
For me LDAP is the most difficult to learn.
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