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Re: Alias password?

At 08:54 AM 6/15/2006, MT wrote:
>I thought maybe an alias would do:

RFC 4511, Section 4.2 (Bind Operation)
     Where the server attempts to locate the named object,
     it SHALL NOT perform alias dereferencing.

>As you can see I'm pretty lost and any help would be  
>greatly appreciated.

I note that if you want to use an email address as the
authentication identity, you could use a SASL authentication
mechanism which uses simple user names for authentication
identities (e.g., PLAIN, DIGEST-MD5), and then use slapd(8)
identity mapping capabilities to associate this with the
appropriate object (and password).

Kurt