Devlin Daley wrote: > I'm just curious as to why you need to verify someone's Route Y > credentials. > > I dislike immensely providing that password to units other than the > actual Route Y. That situation easily lends itself to non authorized > impersonation. Is it absolutely necessary? > > An easier method if you absolutely must: just attach directly to > BYU's LDAP. If you can login to the LDAP with their username/ > password, it's legit. Just disconnect when your done. > If I'm not mistaken, the Route Y credentials and the LDAP credentials are one and the same.
As for verifying through Route Y instead of through LDAP there are a few students that the LDAP doesn't seem to work. I've no idea why but when I was sys-admining in the CS department we would get 1-3 students a semester that we couldn't verify against LDAP. And it wasn't just a network hiccup because it would be tried multiple times to verify. Trevan -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
