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Hi everybody
I'm completely new in LDAP and Directories. I have
the following situation.
I'm building a portal with free web-mail access.
The portal is in Windows 2000 Server with IIS and access a database in SQL
Server. In the other hand, the mail server is in a Red Hat Linux 7.2 box with
sendmail and webmail, the mail users are store in a MySQL database. As all
portals do, we offer several services and we want to establish a single sign-on
for all the services. The problem is that we have the mail users separated from
the other services's users located in the SQL Server database, so when a user
log to the Mail Server we have to log by program in the SQL Server to garantize
that if the user want to use another services don't have to log-on again. I
heard that if I use a directory the user can log into it so the single sign-on
is resolved.
The questions without answer for me are the
following:
- If I install a directory in the linux Box (for
example OpenLDAP) and install a directory in Windows (for example Active
Directory) could they communicate each other and share information ?. If this is
the case, what should I do ?
- In the Linux Box, can I configure the Web-mail to
log the users into the OpenLDAP server instead of into the MySQL Database?.
Could I blend the MySQL DB with the OpenLDAP or I have to enter the user one by
one into the directory?
- Can I create a global database that the two
platforms could access?. I mean a global directory with the user data.
Please I ask you to forgive me if I talk
about senseless things.
I hope somebody have the patience to explain all
this to me.
Thanks a lot
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