-original message- Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Extract usernames from Active Directory From: Alessandro Ratti <a...@lord2y.org> Date: 2011-06-29 04:07
>Il giorno 28/giu/2011, alle ore 20.41, Pandu Poluan ha scritto: > >> Hello list! >> >> I'm in the process of setting up a pair of cloud-based email gateways >> based on Postfix. The gateways are meant to perform 'front line >> filtering' against spammers, before the messages entered the measly >> bandwidth into my company's DMZ. >> >> The 'missing ingredient' would be a way to extract the usernames from >> Windows' Active Directory. I don't really need a full-fledged AD-LDAP >> synchronization, just a way to get them names into a nice list with >> which 'postmap' can act upon. >> >> I plan to run the extractor tool every 30 minutes on one of the Gentoo >> servers in the DMZ, and automagically push the extraction result -- if >> there's anything new -- onto the mail gateways using rsync. And have >> yet-another-script at the gateways run 15 minutes afterwards to >> 'compile' a new file (maybe leveraging make's baked-in timestamp >> detection). >> >> Anyone knows what tool(s) I'll need? Especially for the AD extraction part? > >You can try this one: http://www.likewise.com/ > >Let me know if it's solve your problem. That looks mighty nice, but perhaps a bit of overkill for my needs. After all, I only need to get the username field, and not perform any authentication. Rgds, -- FdS Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ Sent from Nokia E72-1
