Re: Non-personal mail accounts

[anax <anax@ayni.com>]

You may add the objectClass
mailrecipient to accounts or posixaccounts.

otherwise, we use objectclass
qmail (to define mailboxes)
qmailControl (to define acceptable domains)
to define our mail environment.

you may find the corresponding schemas in the Internet.

suomi


On 02/07/2012 09:39 AM, Nick Milas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We are storing user accounts in OpenLDAP. Main classes used are:
>
> objectClass: top
> objectClass: person
> objectClass: organizationalPerson
> objectClass: inetOrgPerson
> objectClass: eduPerson
>
> User email address(es) is (are) stored in the "mail" attribute and are
> also used by Postfix (which uses virtual accounts based on LDAP).
>
> I would like to define some email accounts (with associated email
> addresses) which do NOT belong to a particular user; so, in these
> accounts a mail attribute would not be associated (both conceptually and
> practically) with a person objectClass.
>
> Is there a suggestion on which existing objectClass(es) (and associated
> schemas, if applicable) should we use for such use? I thought of
> "account" (defined in cosine.schema), but it does not accept a mail
> attribute. The idea would be to use something like an extended "account"
> objectClass, (or "account" itself, with some additional auxiliary class
> to define an email address) together with simpleSecurityObject to allow
> definition of a password.
>
> Any experiences, suggestions will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Nick