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

Tue Sep 25 21:39:20 CEST 2012

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
+