Posted by Notgiven on 11/17/33 11:39
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> "Notgiven" <notreallyme@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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>>I am considering a large project and they currently use LDAP on MS
>>platform. It would be moved to a LAMP platform. OpenLDAP is an option
>>though I have not used it before. I do feel fairly confortable with my
>>ability to use SESSIONS for authentication and access control.
>>
>> Would it better to learn and use LDAP or can you REALLY have just as
>> secure authentication and access control using Sessions?
>>
>> Thanks for your thoughts and experience.
>
> I'd use LDAP. It will integrate directly with their domain controller (or
> whatever is holding the directory), and save you lots of headache. You
> can even use samba to act as a pam module, which you can use on linux to
> authenticate users on a windows domain.
>
> dave
Thanks. This will be a standalone server not included in any domain.
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