Re: LDAP

Gregory Maxwell (linker@z.ml.org)
Tue, 6 Jul 1999 16:56:09 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Glen Turner wrote:

>
> Raiden wrote:
> > Any LDAP compliance on Linux Kernel?
> > are any thingking about this point?
>
> Khimenko Victor replied:
> > Huh. Where it can be used in Linux kernel ??? Why it's
> > needed there ?
>
> LDAP is becoming the directory access mechanism adopted by
> large enterprises for user registration. So LDAP support in
> the Linux kernel allows people to log into Linux machines with

Stop.

In unix we do user auth in userspace (via things like PAM). There kernel
needs no knoweldge of LDAP.

The only issue here that might possibly involve the kernel is that your
LDAP user system might want 32bit uids.

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