[imp] horde/imp+... with multidomain ldap setup

[Edwin Culp]

Quoting Timo Boettcher <spida at gmx.net>:

> Hi Edwin,
>
>
> * Edwin Culp <eculp at viviendaatualcance.com.mx>, Wednesday, April 7, 
> 2004, 6:01:52 PM:
>
>> Quoting Timo Boettcher <spida at gmx.net>:
>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>  I am trying to get horde/imp+turba+passwd+sam+ingo+trean working with a
>>>  ldap multidomain-setup.
>>>  Even though ldap support generally works, it seems to be based on the
>>>  assumption that the users are $uid=$username,$basedn. But in my case
>>>  with multiple domains, I have
>>> $uid=$username,dc=somedomain1,$basedn,
>>>  where somedomain is different from user to user. Shadowspawn on
>>>  suggested to me on irc to update to head (which I did, with the same
>>>  problem), and fix it myself. However, even though I have done some
>>>  work with php/ldap, I don't seem to find my way through the code, if
>>>  if I will keep trying.
>>>  Is anybody else working on this?
>>>  Should I file a bug/feature-request on this?
>
>> I think many of use have ldap for many or most horde apps
>> and I'm sure that we all use somewhat different ldap
>> structures.  It should just be a question of configuring
>> the respective conf.php files with your information with no
>> code modification.  Do you have a specific problem where
>> you feel that code modification is necessary?
>
> For example, in turbas sources.php, a personal AddressBook in LDAP.
> About line 276 of yesterdays head turba/config/sources.php.dist.
>
> $uid = Auth::getBareAuth();
> $basedn = 'dc=example, dc=com';
> $cfgSources['personal_ldap'] = array(
>     'title' => _("My Addressbook"),
>     'type' => 'ldap',
>     'params' => array(
>         'server' => 'localhost',
>         'root' => 'ou=' . $uid . ',ou=personal_addressbook' . $basedn,
>         'bind_dn' => 'uid=' . $uid . ',ou=People,' . $basedn,
>         'bind_password' => Auth::getCredential('password'),
>
> What do I have to enter for an personal address book in
> ou=personal_addressbook,cn=$uid,dc=$domain_of_user,ou=domain,o=myserver?
> Since I have users in several domains $domain_of_user may be different
> for any user.

This is a bit more complex.  My first thoughts would be to
either:

   1. do an ldap search to dynamically determine the
      dc=domain_of_user based on the UID.
   2. Use virtual domains in apache and use the HTTP_HOST
variable.
   3  Have the user login with user at domain_of_user.

Anyone think of another way?  I use and prefer a variant of
3 for many reasons but YMMV.   For 1 you might look at the
function _prefs_hook_from_addr that has two examples of
doing something similar.

You really might want to rethink your ldap structure for
simplicity and future funcionality.

good luck,

ed