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>>Something else that seems to work pretty well, is the 
>>PHPGroupware web interface. Because of the fact that an 
>>IMAP mail client won't be able to use collaborative 
>>calendaring,  it was a good idea to integrate a reasonably 
>>well liked IMAP webmail interface (Squirrelmail) into a 
>>groupware application with collaborative calendaring.
>>I'm using it within my organization, and haven't had any 
>>complaints yet. (small organization, though)
>How are you doing login authentication for phpgroupware?
>I installed phpgroupware on an email server, and it appears that it
>keeps it's own user/password database (in postgresql/mysql), and won't
>use /etc/passwd. 
>That's in addition to the /etc/passwd authentication used to connect 
>to my IMAP server.  That's a pain since I don't want to add another
>password into the mix for my users.
>However, if you're using LDAP to authenticate, then phpgroupware claims
>to support that.  That would be nice, but I'm not running a LDAP server.
>I'm not against running an LDAP server (which is why I ask the question
>about running one outside of a firewall), but it you know of some way
>for phpgroupware to use /etc/passwd, that would get it running faster in
>my current situation.

Run slapd (the LDAP server) with the passwd backend!  Then your /etc/passwd file
IS the contents of your DSA.  No migration required.  Each line in /etc/passwd
is morphed into a posixAccount object, all real-time.