RE: Group authentication

[Mark Gillies <mg@amslux.lu>]

Alex wrote;
> 
> I recently heard about group authentication using LDAP server.
> I am not quite sure what this means. Does it mean that the 
> LDAP server will have a group which contains a list of 
> members and while authenticating, we'll first check whether 
> the user belongs to a particular group and then authenticate 
> using his password OR does it mean that members of a 
> particular group all have a common password?
>

A good article with perl scripts at
http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2000/05/wilcox/

Mark Gillies.