[luau] HOWTO: System Auth with OpenLDAP
R. Scott Belford
sctinc at flex.com
Fri Apr 26 12:17:03 PDT 2002
On Friday, April 26, 2002, at 09:01 AM, cpaul at telemetrybox.org wrote:
>>>> Now if we could only get it to work...
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>>> It is working now - the problem we are having has to do with
>>> PHPGroupware setup.
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>> 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?
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> LDAP clients can be configured to authenticate off of several servers,
> and the servers can replicate data between them quite easily. So, it
> is quite easy to set up a resilient LDAP authentication system.
Alright. This was my one hesitation about it, the lack of redundancy.
Thanks for the info, Charles. I am seeing LDAP in my horizon.
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> Although Personally, I think LDAP Sucks.
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