MS AD authenitication and attachment restrictions

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Quoting Muhammad Sharfuddin <ibnerazi at yahoo.com>:

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> GUNNAR WROBEL /<WROBEL at PARDUS.DE>/ wrote:
> > > > 1 - is it possible to authenticate users from MS Active
> Directory ?
> > > this might work. We had an AD connector for the kolabd daemon
> but I
> > don't know if that one still works fine. I added Thomas on cc
> he might
> > know more about it than I do.
> > Thanks, I am waiting for Thomas reply
> But do you know from where I can download the connector from ? to
> test it

No need to download. It is part of your Kolab server and lies at:

/kolab/lib/perl/vendor_perl/5.10.0/Kolab/LDAP/Backend/ad.pm

Cheers,

Gunnar

>
> > > > 2 - is it possible to restrict a group of users from
> sending
> > > attachments
> > > 3 - is it possible to restrict a group of users from
> sending
> > > attachment larger then 55 KB
> > > This is nothing that you would get with a simple click in the
> admin
> > frontend but it is certainly configurable.
> > > The Kolab Server uses postfix as MTA and amavisd-new for
> > virus/attachment checking. Both might be used to impose limits
> on the
> > message size. How the exact configuration might look like
> depends on
> > your exact requirements though. "restrict users from
> sending"
> > attachments is still a little bit vague. What exactly is an
> "attachment"
> > in a multi-mime-part message? Does the HTML part a client
> might send
> > already count as attachment or not? In general my feeling is
> that it
> > makes sense to impose restrictions on the complete message
> size in that
> > case. And that is something you could add to the postfix
> configuration.
> > And I believe it should also be no problem to restrict that to
> a
> > specific group of users.
> > OK thanks for the explanation.. appreciated Cheers,
> > > Gunnar
>
>

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