Re: [9fans] authentication by LDAP?

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

i guess in addition to suffering linux brain dapage, i didn't explain myself well.

if one wrote an ldap fileserver that served up ndb-stype tuples in a standard
format, all the ndb library would need is a hook to talk to this fileserver instead
of parsing an ndb file. you could do the same with dns and other protocols.

- erik

Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> writes

| 
| > is there anything about ldap that would prevent one from writing an
| > ldap adaptor for ndb? i was thinking something along these lines
| 
| you'd have to put it in libndb, polluting every program
| that reads ndb files and the standard library.
| i much prefer steve's solution.
| 
| russ