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Re: draft minutes from Chicago meeting
Phil,
Think about it, how will you implement a multi-server domain?
With CRAM-MD5 you have to configure the password for users on each server.
That may be fine for a few servers and a few non-anonymous users, but it
does not scale when you implement hundreds of servers and have millions of
users that require strong authentication.
Hence, if you *only* mandate CRAM-MD5, you will only cater to the small
installations. That was the reason for my question.
Cheers, ....Erik.
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Erik Skovgaard
GeoTrain Corp.
LDAP/X.500 Training and Consulting
http://www.geotrain.com
At 15:40 01/10/98 +0100, Phil Pinkerton wrote:
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>>Phil,
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>>So you propose only supporting the small directory environments?
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>Not at all. But I fail to understand what the size of a directory
>deployment, be it single server, distributed, or replicated servers has to
>do with mandating a server-side SASL authentication mechanism primarily for
>use by clients - I'm sure someone will explain. Maybe this view is a bit
>simplistic, but, in my opinion, some of the debate taking place has merely
>been putting hurdles in the way of progress on this topic.
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>This is difinitely my final comment!
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>Regards, Phil
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