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["Steve Shipway" (via sympa-users Mailing List) <address@concealed>]

> I manage a little sympa instance for a company. Most of our Sympa lists are
> based on ldap groups. Currently all groups specify all connection details 
> (host,
> bind-dn, password, basic filter, etc..). Is there a possibilty to store 
> them in
> one location and only save the details distict for each list (e.g. specific 
> filter) in
> the list config?

One of the things on my 'wish list' for v6.2 is to be able to use the  .incl 
method of defining external datasource that you use for Admins when you are 
defining Subscribers as well, so that the LDAP passwords (for example) do not 
need to be entered by the list owner.  I'm glad to hear someone else has the 
same requirement (and for the same reason).

However, in the absence of this in 6.1, you can use list families to achieve 
something similar, if you do not need to subsequently edit the list 
definitions directly.  You can also use list creation templates to allow 
people to give only the LDAP group name at list creation time as the 
credentials are hidden in the template (though this doesn’t help for 
subsequent datasource additions).

Steve

Steve Shipway
address@concealed

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