On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 5:30 PM, John R Pierce <pie...@hogranch.com> wrote:

> On 4/22/2015 11:37 AM, Joseph Kregloh wrote:
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>> I have successfully setup LDAP and setup simple authentication using
>> simple bind. This was my test case. Now I need to move to the next lever
>> which would be search and bind. This will allow me to grant access to
>> particular servers for some people. I am not sure where or how the
>> ldapsearchattibute comes into play.
>>
>>
>
> you would do this by CREATE USER on the various servers for those people,
> along with GRANT.  LDAP only provides authentication, it doesn't manage
> authorization.
>
>
I see. That would still require a manual process to create the user on each
server. I was planing on using some already existing scripts to create the
user automatically on all servers and then LDAP would authorize depending
on attributes in their LDAP profile.


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