RE: Is ->LDAP->SASL->SASLAUTHD->LDAP the only way... further information

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Wednesday, March 31, 2004 4:41 PM -0800 Howard Chu 
<hyc@highlandsun.com> wrote:

> Why not read the Admin Guide and see for yourself.
> http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin22/sasl.html
>
> saslauthd is completely unnecessary when using OpenLDAP as the
> authoritative database for authentication.
>
> I'm not sure if mod_auth_ldap for Apache supports LDAP SASL Binds. The
> code you need on the web server also depends on what forms of
> authentication you plan to support for the actual web pages.

Stanford's freeware web authentication system does.

See:

<http://webauthv3.stanford.edu>

--Quanah


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