[luau] HOWTO: System Auth with OpenLDAP

[R. Scott Belford]

On Friday, April 26, 2002, at 07:42  AM, cpaul at telemetrybox.org wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 11:37:29PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
>> http://staff.pisoftware.com/bmarshal/publications/system_auth/sage-
>> au/system
>> _auth.html
>>
>> Charles Esteban found this short and useful guide that explains basic
>> authentication with openldap.  LDAP is very useful for centralizing 
>> login
>> names and passwords for Linux, MacOSX and Windows across many servers.
>>
>> Now if we could only get it to work...
>
> It is working now - the problem we are having has to do with 
> PHPGroupware setup.

A hypothetical:  if the single box used to centralize logins and 
passwords goes down, do the clients lose access to the servers and one 
another in the network because they cannot be authenticated?