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LDAP integration services

Registered by Lionel Dricot

The idea of having a single user database for multiple services on a server is very common. The most used solution to this problem is famous : LDAP. Unfortunatly, LDAP is also very complex to setup by itself and you have to dig into every single application to make them communicate with your LDAP.

The idea of packages that make life of administrator easier is a gorgeous achievement. The first one being dovecot-postfix. Now, you only have to apt-get install a package where before you had to through a hundred of bookmarked howtos.

It makes sense to do the same for ldap integration. Possible packages include postfix-ldap, dovecot-ldap, ejabberd-ldap, apache2-ldap, trac-ldap, ...

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