| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to> |
| Cc: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Albe Laurenz <all(at)adv(dot)magwien(dot)gv(dot)at>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCHES] LDAP auth |
| Date: | 2006-03-07 02:29:30 |
| Message-ID: | 440CF00A.3090301@dunslane.net |
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Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 15:00:07 -0500,
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)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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