On 29 Jul (14:07), Ken Gourlay wrote: > LDAP is nice, but depending on how many users you have, it may not be > efficient enough to do what you need done. I'm happy to talk to you > about more specific things, but I guess my immediate recommendation is > to strongly consider why you want to use LDAP as a standard before > jumping into it.
You're using OpenLDAP? I've come across some performance tests and statements from different people (sorry, I don't have any links), that led to the conclusion that OpenLDAP is really a poor performer. Improvements up to 1000x times the OpenLDAP speed where measured. I can't prove or comment on this, because I'm using OpenLDAP only for a base of about 30 users. But I've also tried the MySQL backend to OpenLDAP (pretty crude hack, had to fix some things before it worked) and as far as I can see, OpenLDAP will never fly with this backend. Try a differend directory server. Or switch to pam_pgsql, as I will do in the next couple of weeks. In your case, pam_mysql will be better of course. Why use the directory server at all, if your backend is a relational database? -- BLUE MARS - Gesellschaft für digitale Kommunikation mbH Christian Bauer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Technology Department http://www.bluemars.de Ebersheimstrasse 5 Tel: +49 (0)69 469973-00 60320 Frankfurt/M. Fax: +49 (0)69 469973-99