Re: why ldap auth

2002-03-12 Thread Steve Sobol
At 05:03 PM 3/5/02 +, you wrote: >Ldap unlike other DB queries is fast lookup. >I mean ldap is often used because the speed at which >information can be retrieved it is slow on putting in >information though. This is way many ISP`s are starting >to use it to store all user information is that

Re: why ldap auth

2002-03-06 Thread Birger Toedtmann
Michael Bacon schrieb am Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 09:50:34PM -0500: > Don't. LDAP isn't designed for authentication, and isn't particularly good > at it. It's a nice standby if you don't have the time to set up a real > authentication service like kerberos or something else that was designed > fo

Re: why ldap auth

2002-03-05 Thread Michael Bacon
Don't. LDAP isn't designed for authentication, and isn't particularly good at it. It's a nice standby if you don't have the time to set up a real authentication service like kerberos or something else that was designed for it, but if you're not already there, don't go there. Michael --On Tu

Re: why ldap auth

2002-03-05 Thread Walter Wong
The main reason not to use sasldb is that we don't provide many administration tools -- so users changing their password requires additional software. However, this isn't advocating using ldap. The main reason for using ldap is because it is already there. If you don't already have ldap up, I'

Re: why ldap auth

2002-03-05 Thread Birger Toedtmann
Tarjei Huse schrieb am Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 05:44:22PM +0100: > > Could someone tell me if there is already no ldap > > database existing why it would be beneficial to use > ?? NO ldap? I use ldap :) > > It is very practival if your users do other things than email, f.x. I use ldap > to store us

Re: why ldap auth

2002-03-05 Thread simon
On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 16:30, Dave C wrote: > Could someone tell me if there is already no ldap > database existing why it would be beneficial to use > ldap for user info and authentication versus using > sasldb for the user/password information. thanks. > Ldap unlike other DB queries is fast loo

Re: why ldap auth

2002-03-05 Thread Tarjei Huse
> Could someone tell me if there is already no ldap > database existing why it would be beneficial to use ?? NO ldap? I use ldap :) It is very practival if your users do other things than email, f.x. I use ldap to store userinfo for posix users, sambausers and for people accessing email and apac