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Re: LDAP vs SQL
- To: treed@ultraviolet.org
- Subject: Re: LDAP vs SQL
- From: Stuart Schmukler <Stuart.Schmukler@ncal.kaiperm.org>
- Date: 27 Oct 1998 16:29:50 -0800
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Tracy said:
> I'm looking into implementing something like LDAP for my company to help
> us manage our user accounts and various other sorts of info. I've read the
> faqs and various web pages but there are still a few things I don't
> understand. As far as I know, none of our OS's (Linux, HP-UX, SCO)
> directly support LDAP in any way.
Is you want to give 'users' accounts on your system LDAP has to be integrated into the logon program.
Its easier to see how LDAP could be used if the customers or vendors shouldn't have account but you want
to control access to some resource. For example private web pages, or PPP lines (for an ISP) come to mind.
SaS