Re: EXTERNAL and ldapi://

[Pierangelo Masarati <masarati@aero.polimi.it>]

"Kurt D. Zeilenga" wrote:
> 
> BTW, it would be interesting to create an LDAP
> authorization association based upon the Unix
> domain credential via getsockopt SCM_CREDENTIALS
> (and like mechanisms) and SASL EXTERNAL....

Interesting idea, although, quoting the linux documentation project
(e.g. 
http://www.linuxvalley.it/encyclopedia/ldp/manpage/man7/unix.7.php):

	SCM_CREDENTIALS and the abstract namespace were introduced
	with Linux 2.2 and should not be  used  in  portable  pro­
	grams.

Ando

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