Re: [9fans] authentication by LDAP?

["Paweł Lasek" <pawel.lasek@gmail.com>]

On 1/2/06, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
>
> One of these flat files could be DNS info from LDAP in ndb(6) format
> which you could simply reference in /lib/ndb/local, e.g.
[...]
> This is all very neat but vapourware at present - sorry, If I do get
> around to such a thing I will announce it here.

It looks like it will be the first job in our 'Hack club' :D

IDEA:
On linux machine, every x hours, a cron job will check ldap database
for new/changed/deleted entries and translate them to format supported
by plan9 software (updating the fileserver's user database in the
process).

And I decided not to read RFC's nor libldap manual/code... python-ldap
or perl-ldap will be used, and since perl-ldap is written entirely in
Perl, it might be possible to set it working as native plan9
fileserver (If you call perl program native :) )


The only problem I have is:
* Is there a simple way to setup linux box as ndb/auth/fileserver and
so on for plan9?
* How can I configure some unix DHCP server to send fileserver/auth
info to plan9   (I tried with ISC DHCPd... for some reason I can't get
it working)
* OR set-up Plan9's dhcp server (dhcp info isn't going to change that
often as to use LDAP :P )


> -Steve
>


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