[OGo-Discuss] SOHO OGo and accounts

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> I was wondering what people with more sysadmin experience than
> myself think of this:
> For an OGo small business server (5-20 people), would it make sense
> to have the OGo database and it's accounts be the source for identity 
> management (instead of LDAP)?  Could it work for stuff like SAMBA, 
> amavisd-new, IMAP, etc.?  I currently use PAM to authenticate IMAP against 
> the OGo db...   Would it work with SAMBA?

You might be able to get it to work with SAMBA, but it would be so
tremendously hackish that LDAP might actually be easier.... and that is
saying something! :)

There was a PostgreSQL passdb for Samba 3.x somewhere, but your going to
have to deal with schema differences and somehow manage the password
crypt transforms to/from NT-MD5/LANMAN... ugh.

> The basic idea is that all services get managed through the OGo web ui, 
> making it like an appliance.  I don't know if this is how the InstantOGo 
> server works... I figure I'll learn more along the way getting it going on 

Does InstantOGo provide Samba?  I thought is was just OGo/SMTP/IMAP.

> my Debian box... Assuming there isn't something fundamentally wrong with the
>  idea...
> Thanks in advance for your time and comments!

It is an interesting idea, and probably possible, but not trivial.
You'd probably have to code bits of it.