On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Etienne Goyer wrote:

> 1. I can't make my backend directly available to client (thru referral,
> for example) because I can't force plain login (thus authenticating to
> LDAP) on them because that would break the frontend authentication
> process.

2.2 can do this successfully.

> 2. Frontend client authentication is crippled.  Maybe some client could
> authenticate via better mechanism than plain login.  It is sad to deny
> them the possibilitie, even though the obvious workaround is to use SSL.

You can either use the openldap auxprop plugin, or wait until a reasonable
alternative is written.

-Rob

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