my last gig was senior DBA at an internet travel shop,
and we used LDAP to authenticate users. Since it is
really just a glorified list sitting in memory, it is
perfectly suited to small, straightforward uses such
as this.
We did not use oracle LDAP, but another vendor that I
can't remember.
The LDAP was accessed by the Java processes and
gathered the password and username from it to login to
the database.
hth,
jack silvey
- Rachel Carmichael <wisernet100_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> One of the users here came to me to talk about
> setting up user
> authentication and wanted to know what I knew about
> LDAP and Oracle.
> since the sum total of my knowledge on the subject
> consists of "Oracle
> Internet Directory is a pain to set up" I thought I
> might ask for
> advice from some who are more familiar with the
> subject.
>
>
> We will have something on the order of a million
> hits a day, this is
> definitely ONLY user authentication. We are not
> wedded to the idea that
> it has to be part of Oracle, if there is another,
> better
> (easier/stable) way to handle this, we are open to
> using that.
>
> Any suggestions on places to look? A search on LDAP
> in the 9.2 docs got
> me over 1300 matches... a bit overwhelming!
>
> I'm going to be reading through the OID admin
> manual, but that's
> somewhat prejudiced towards Oracle :)
>
> Rachel
>
>
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