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Re: [PATCHES] LDAP auth

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Old 04-12-2008, 02:29 AM
Albe Laurenz
 
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Default Re: [PATCHES] LDAP auth

>>>I find it hard to imagine LDAP being sensibly use for any other
postgres
>>>purpose than authentication, despite recent flights of fancy on the

list
>>>about storing large slabs of config data there.

>>
>>It can also make sense to get authorization information from LDAP.

>
> Yes, that's true. But I can imagine putting a shared config setup on a


> web server, or an ftp server, or a tftp server, a good deal more

easily
> than putting it in LDAP.


I don't want to discuss matters of taste, and this is clearly such a
matter.

I tend to agree that it is a little exaggerated to set up an LDAP server
just to store a few bits of connection information.

But nowadays LDAP servers are used for various things, like directories
of employees, and if you already have an LDAP server in the house, it is
the
perfect tool for the task.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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