On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 05:03:05PM +0200, Stefan Hinz wrote:
> Dear Jeremy,
>
> > > Is there currently a way for mysql to take it's users
> > > and passwords from an ldap server?
>
> > There is not.
>
> There is: It's called PHP ;-)
>
> See http://php.net/manual/en/ref.ldap.php and
> http://php.net/manual/en/ref.mysql.php
That's not what the original poster was asking for, unless I mis-read
the question.
Folks often want the MySQL server's authentication to be changed so
that it consults and outside source (NIS, LDAP, /etc/passwd) but that
hasn't been implemented. That's a problem PHP doesn't solve today.
Jeremy
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