Jeremy Zawodny wrote:
>
> 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.
You didn't mis-read :-)
> 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.
>
PHP is not the solution. On the other hand, Zope just might be... I am
studying it right now, and it looks very promising as it can access both
ldap and mysql.
Mike
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