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Re: How to use own authentication methods?
At 09:17 PM 10/18/99 +0200, Martin Strohbach wrote:
>I am just starting up exploring LDAP. I already wrote a little servlet that
>handles queries on telephone numbers of employees and things like that. But
>still I know pretty few about LDAP. Here is my question:
>
>We want to put some applications into our intranet. These application shall use
>an LDAP directory, where the users are administrated. The problem is that we on
>ourselves have no access to the user passwords. They are stored in IBMs RACF. So
>we need something like an exit from LDAP. That means the LDAP server should pass
>the passwords through to a self written application that authenticates against
>RACF. How can this be done with OpenLDAP?
You can extend the OpenLDAP server (by writing code, of course) to
use external authentication systems. I would suggest you post to
our developer's list.
Kurt
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Kurt D. Zeilenga <kurt@boolean.net>
Net Boolean Incorporated <http://www.boolean.net/>