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Subject: Creating "dynamically configured" directories on a per-user basis
From: "Sebastian J. Bronner" <waschtl () sbronner ! com>
Date: 2003-03-26 6:59:19
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I want to offer an addressbook-service for the users of my system similar to
the what IMAP does for email:
With IMAP, users' mail is delivered into a special directory in their home
directory, and they may retrieve it at their whim (without any need for setup
on their part, besides configuring their client).
So, I want to have another special directory in users' home directories
(perhaps named LDAPdir) which will hold the database files for their
addressbook. I currently have an LDAP namespace that looks like:
dc=sbronner,dc=com
ou=groups
gid=...
ou=users
uid=...
stored in /usr/var/openldap. The users' addressbooks would be added to the
namespace as follows:
uid=john,ou=users,dc=sbronner,dc=com
ou=addressbook
cn=...
This requires that I configure in /etc/openldap/slapd.conf access to each
users' directory by the corresponding user. Now, this is where the dynamic
comes in: I don't want to put an entry for each user in this file, but rather
some sort of formula that would tell slapd to allow john access to the
directory in /home/john/LDAPdir.
All pointers and suggestions welcome.
--
Sebastian J. Bronner
waschtl@sbronner.com
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