[TriLUG] LDAP ?

Patrick Brewer patwbrewer at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 18 13:09:08 EST 2007


> Magnus wrote:
>> Nick wrote:
>>> Any nudges in the right direction would be appreciated.
>>
>> Would that include nudging away from LDAP for authentication?  It's a 
>> great tool for user metadata and other directory services but for 
>> authentication... KerberosV.  Linux does support authentication by 
>> KerberosV mixed with directory services from LDAP.  Works great.

So what are the downsides to using LDAP for authentication?


 	
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