From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: "Steve Simon" Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 12:35:24 +0000 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] authentication by LDAP? In-Reply-To: <9f3897940512291432h677a5793y2f758ae927c02c1c@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: cd47db7c-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Currently there is no ldap client of any sort for plan9 (unless somone knows different?). I was looking at the RFCs again over chirstmas but once again I have recoiled from the complexity of it. I imagine an ldap client which provides a number of interface directories, one of them which allows arbitary searches of the ldap database, and perhaps others which hold cached info in the form of flat files. 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. database= file=/lib/ndb/root file=/lib/ndb/local file=/lib/ndb/common file=/mnt/ldap/ndb This is all very neat but vapourware at present - sorry, If I do get around to such a thing I will announce it here. -Steve