Author: W B Hacker Date: To: exim users Subject: Re: [exim] LDAP/Kerberus/Radius question.
Graeme Fowler wrote: > On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 12:42 +0200, Cyborg wrote:
>> Where is the big advantage over ...
>>
>> - a _local_ mysql database auth ?
>> - a mysql database server _at all_ ?
>
> If your organisation already has a large, embedded, well-documented,
> well-managed, well-understood LDAP directory system - why would you want
> to abstract a second (or third) system away from it, just to allow Exim
> to work?
>
> Graeme
>
>
Same again for an SQL critter, CDB, flat-file .. any add-on.
Point being that ordinarily Exim is less fragile and more efficient with
nought but its own built-ins.
But the 'enterprise' costs of administration can show an overall
advantage if things can be re-used without too much harm.
One doesn't so much implement 'externals' to support Exim, as option
Exim to make use of already justified-elsewhere externals.
Where there has been enough need and the resources to code and test,
Exim has acquired all the most useful 'hooks' to ease that sort of
integration and re-use with not much more than a box-tick.
ELSE not.
There are tools enough and more to do this indirectly if not directly,
so it isn't about 'impossible'. Just not a built-in 'box tick'.
