Re: [PATCHES] LDAP auth - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: [PATCHES] LDAP auth
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Msg-id 440CF00A.3090301@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: [PATCHES] LDAP auth  (Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>)
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Bruno Wolff III wrote:

>On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 15:00:07 -0500,
>  Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>  
>
>>I find it hard to imagine LDAP being sensibly use for any other postgres 
>>purpose than authentication, despite recent flights of fancy on the list 
>>about storing large slabs of config data there.
>>    
>>
>
>It can also make sense to get authorization information from LDAP.
>
>  
>

Yes, that's true. But I can imagine putting a shared config setup on a 
web server, or an ftp server, or a tftp server, a good deal more easily 
than putting it in LDAP.

cheers

andrew


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