Daniel M. wrote:
Lets say you were going to write a web application
using Perl and wanted to authenticate your users
agains the LDAP directory. Would you use a
posixAccount entry to verify their credentials?
I think it's OT 'cause it's an ldap question. Not perl-ldap one.
in fact, your web ap
--On Friday, December 09, 2005 3:28 PM +1300 Gerry Smyth
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Hi Daniel,
One thought could be to use Kerberos V for authentication and use LDAP
for authorisation tied in with pam (all on Linux of course).
Your web application say assuming php is used would call the pa
Hi Daniel,
One thought could be to use Kerberos V for authentication and use LDAP for
authorisation tied in with pam (all on Linux of course).
Your web application say assuming php is used would call the pam_auth
module, which interrogates Kerberos.
In this way, your web app is loosely coupled
Hi,
I think you're off topic.
I also think you need to look at posix.schema, there is a posixAccount
object with userPassword and uid attributes there.
regards
mc
Problem: Given an application that stores users
accounts in a database table as "user" and "password"
(encrypted of course) what would be the best way to
convert this app to use LDAP.
Do I store the login and password in the LDAP
directory as attributes to a DN such as:
cn=john.doe,cn=webUsers
