[ale] How LDAP works with authentication

[Nate Murchison]

The original email led me to guess that you expect a client program to
authenticate a user
using an LDAP server, but not necessarily be able to change the record on
the LDAP server.
It that is true, it is a simpler problem than having write access, that
implies authentication by
the LDAP server itself. That raises the question: what is your LDAP server?
OpenLDAP?

LDAP itself is merely a protocol that allows creation/update/retrieval of
records that can be
anything you have a schema for. If you have control of the server and you
can grow your
own user authentication client, you can use practically any encoding you
like. If you are
going to have passwords stored in plaintext, then you certainly want SSL.

MD5 encoding is common enough to simplify testing.


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Nate Murchison
Chief Technology Officer
American Fire and Bomb, L.L.C.
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