[Mageia-sysadm] Email change replication between identity and sympa

[Ross Wilson]

Please try and post properly; you have only made yourself look silly. One email is enough thank you very much.

Buchan Milne <bgmilne at zarb.org> wrote:

>Please try and quote properly ...
>
>On Thursday, 20 September 2012 00:07:10 Joerg Stephan wrote:
>
>> Well i found a plugin page http://www.sympa.org/manual/ldap or manual to do
>> it with ldap and if you access the puppet repository
>> 
>> 
>> svn co svn://svn.mageia.org/svn/adm/puppet/
>> 
>> 
>> you will find an puppet/modules/sympa/templates/auth.conf which does the
>> ldap binding for auth in addition to that
>> 
>> 
>> [root at x0 templates]# grep -ir ldap *
>> auth.conf:ldap
>> auth.conf:        host                            ldap.<%= domain %>
>> auth.conf:        bind_password                   <%= ldap_password %>
>> config:<% if subscriber_ldap_group and not subscription_open %>
>> config:<% elsif sender_ldap_group %>
>> config:send restricted_<%= sender_ldap_group %>
>> config:<% if subscriber_ldap_group %>
>> config:include_ldap_query
>> config:    host ldap.<%= domain %>
>> config:    filter (memberOf=cn=<%= subscriber_ldap_group %>,ou=Group,<%=
>> dc_suffix %>) config:    passwd   <%= ldap_password %>
>> data_sources/ldap_group.incl:include_ldap_2level_query
>> data_sources/ldap_group.incl:        host     ldap.<%= domain %>
>> data_sources/ldap_group.incl:        passwd   <%= ldap_password %>
>> scenari/sender.ldap_group:search(<%= name %>.ldap)  smtp,md5,smime  -> do_it
>> search_filters/group.ldap:host        ldap.<%= domain %>:636
>> search_filters/group.ldap:bind_password <%= ldap_password %>
>> 
>> 
>> so ldap is used at some spots in the config, currently i dont know the ldap
>> design, or what identity sets on its site
>
>The DIT layout is mostly the openldap-mandriva-dit one, we should probably 
>actually import this package as a mageia package. See more info here:
>
>http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Projects/OpenLDAP_DIT
>
>> 
>> 
>> From: Ross Wilson <ross.wilson at mail.com>
>> To: Mageia Sysadmin discussions <mageia-sysadm at mageia.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 8:56 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Mageia-sysadm] Email change replication between identity and
>> sympa
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> As far as I can see Sympa doesn't have a 'standard database'; it uses an
>> RDBMS like Postgres, MySQL etc, or am I missing something?
>> 
>
>'standard sympa database' means, the standard sympa database schema running on 
>a supported RDBMS database.
>
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: nicolas vigier
>> Sent: 09/20/12 12:57 AM
>> To: Mageia Sysadmin discussions
>> Subject: Re: [Mageia-sysadm] Email change replication between identity and
>> sympa> 
>> On Wed, 19 Sep 2012, Ross Wilson wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > 
>> > I recently came across this:
>> >    However there are many areas where it's possible to help without having
>> >    root access. For instance :
>> >    - we need to find a solution so that email changed on
>> >    
>> >       identity.mageia.org is automatically changed on sympa mailing lists.
>> >       This require making some changes to identity and/or sympa.
>
>You can:
>-run identity on your own PC/VM/whatever
>-make any changes to identity or other tools and submit a patch
>without requring *any* access.
>
>I did all identity development on my own laptop, other contributors (Michael 
>Scherer, Maarten Vanraes, others) have done their development on non-project 
>environments.
>
>> > Has this issue been resolved? If not, I feel I may be able to resolve it;
>> > it would most likely require some level of> > 
>> >  access to the databases holding the email information, but I feel it
>> >  would be pretty> > 
>> > trivial to setup some sort of trigger which will update sympa if
>> > identity.mageia.org> > 
>> >  is updated (and vice versa?).
>
>There is no database with "triggers" (per se) behind identity, and we should 
>avoid allowing any changes from any non-LDAP-aware tools.
>
>Please, please, please, read my response in this mail, and read the 
>LDAP/identity portions until you understand them, or ask questions 
>specifically about the options here, or we are all wasting time.
>
>I have started cleaning up some current perl syncrepl code to provide as a 
>starting point, but it requires at least another 30 minutes, so either I send 
>this mail now, or it will wait in draft for a week or more.
>
>> See
>> http://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-sysadm/2012-September/004717.html
>> 
>> > To this end, I have submitted an account request in bugzilla.
>> 
>> You don't need an account to develop an ldap trigger or identity plugin.
>> 
>> Identity sources are available on svn :
>> http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft/identity/CatDap/trunk/
>> 
>> And database is standard sympa database.
>
>
>
>Regards,
>Buchan
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