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