Re: apache BASIC authentication w/large userbase

2002-04-05 Thread Marcel Hicking
You might be interested in an article from IBM on "non-stop authentication with Linux clusters" where they use an LDAP server with replication on a second failover server and auto takeover in case of failure. http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/esdd/articles/linux_clust/index.html Cheers, Marcel --On

Re: apache BASIC authentication w/large userbase

2002-04-05 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 01:07:37PM -0500, Jeff S Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 47 lines which said: > LDAP resources or experience in-house, but honestly would like to move > to it Not to discourage you but do not take that move lightly: LDAP is a huge and difficult beast. >

Re: apache BASIC authentication w/large userbase

2002-04-04 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 03:06, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 06:35:22PM -0500, > Jeff S Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > a message of 39 lines which said: > > > would not go for that because apparently a disproportionate number of > > their end-users disable cookies in

Re: apache BASIC authentication w/large userbase

2002-04-03 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 06:35:22PM -0500, Jeff S Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 39 lines which said: > would not go for that because apparently a disproportionate number of > their end-users disable cookies in their web browser. Stupid media > privacy paranoia. You are wrong.

Re: apache BASIC authentication w/large userbase

2002-04-03 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 06:35:22PM -0500, Jeff S Wheeler wrote: > I have a customer who requires BASIC authentication for their site. > They have a fair amount of traffic as well as a very quickly growing > userbase. They were on mod_auth_mysql before, but with hundreds of > apache children that

apache BASIC authentication w/large userbase

2002-04-03 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
I have a customer who requires BASIC authentication for their site. They have a fair amount of traffic as well as a very quickly growing userbase. They were on mod_auth_mysql before, but with hundreds of apache children that is not very practical. I suggested a change to a signed-session-cookie