Re: Munging an OpenLDAP slapd server

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

--On Wednesday, January 25, 2006 3:56 PM -0700 Jon Roberts 
<jon@jonanddeb.net> wrote:


> > I think you could just use saslauthd to forward the password stuff to
> > the KDC, to get whether or not they can bind?
>
> I have read about both approaches on this list before, but I've never
> seen a comparison of the advantages or disadvantages. From what I recall,
> Howard Chu refers to saslauthd as worthless even when configuring SASL.
> What is the essential difference between having slapd, saslauthd, and/or
> the client itself performing kerberos authentication?

I've never set it up, and from what I understand, it'll kill the 
performance of the server.  The real problem here of course is applications 
requiring a password from the LDAP server rather than going straight to the 
KDC...

--Quanah

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