Friday, April 28, 2017

Re: OpenLDAP and filesystem permission

hello,

rosjat@ghweb.de (Markus Rosjat), 2017.04.27 (Thu) 12:59 (CEST):
> I basically want to know if its okay to set permission on a file or
> directory for a LDAP user even if there is no local user on this machine.
>
> Hope someone understand what I mean, background is setting up a mailserver
> with usermanagement over LDAP. The naive way for me would be creating a
> local user with the same name like the one in the LDAP db. So I can set the
> permissions on the Maildirs for the local user.
> This leaves me with maintaining LDAP and Local user but if I could just use
> only the LDAP user this would be nice ( it works at least in my test env)
> but is this considerd secure or should I stick with the LDAP+local User
> approach?

have you seen ypldap(8), might help with your ldap<->local problem by
going yp(8).

Marcus

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