A general purpose LDAP solution?

[Jon Theil Nielsen]

2008/3/23, Jon Theil Nielsen <jontheil at gmail.com>:
> Hi list!
>
>  I have speculated a lot about implementation of (Open)LDAP on my
>  sever. By I haven't yet found the right (and logical) way to do it.
>  I'm running FreeBSD 7.0-Release with some different server applications
>  - Samba PDC
>  - Virtual mail server (Postfix, MySQL, Courier-IMAP)
>  - VPN (currently with mpd4)
>  - Apache-2.2.8 web server (with PHP and MySQL)
>  I would like to implement LDAP for:
>  - authentication of UNIX/login users
>  - authentication of Samba users
>  - authentication/authorization of virtual mail users
>  For the first part, I got useful information from a previsous thread
>  (http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2008-02/msg01047.html)
>  and for the second part, i guess there is sufficient howtos to make it
>  work.
>  My biggest question right now is if is possible to combine all three
>  things in one data structure. And which in which order I should make
>  the different implimentions.
>  Excuse my total lack of understanding, but is it possible to have a
>  structure with a superior unit such as OU=<some organization> which
>  could contain several virtual domains and the actual doamin for my
>  PDC?
>
>  --
> Jon Theil Nielsen
Oh, i forgot one more thing: I would also like to be able to
authenticate VPN users the same way.
-- 
Jon Theil Nielsen