Re: LDAP Auth?
From: Christian Bauer (christian.bauer@bluemars.de)Date: 07/30/02
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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 22:31:05 +0200 From: Christian Bauer <christian.bauer@bluemars.de> To: focus-linux@securityfocus.com
On 29 Jul (14:07), Ken Gourlay wrote:
> LDAP is nice, but depending on how many users you have, it may not be
> efficient enough to do what you need done. I'm happy to talk to you
> about more specific things, but I guess my immediate recommendation is
> to strongly consider why you want to use LDAP as a standard before
> jumping into it.
You're using OpenLDAP? I've come across some performance tests and
statements from different people (sorry, I don't have any links), that
led to the conclusion that OpenLDAP is really a poor performer.
Improvements up to 1000x times the OpenLDAP speed where measured.
I can't prove or comment on this, because I'm using OpenLDAP only for a
base of about 30 users. But I've also tried the MySQL backend to
OpenLDAP (pretty crude hack, had to fix some things before it worked)
and as far as I can see, OpenLDAP will never fly with this backend.
Try a differend directory server. Or switch to pam_pgsql, as I will do
in the next couple of weeks. In your case, pam_mysql will be better of
course. Why use the directory server at all, if your backend is a
relational database?
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