free is good, especially when it comes to ldap and
beer.
;)
jack
- Rachel Carmichael <wisernet100_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> thanks! that's pretty much the way we want to use it
> as well, for a
> universal login across any of our websites. Sun has
> an LDAP that we are
> looking at as well. The plus is, it's free. and we
> don't need another
> oracle license etc etc etc....
>
> and even better, it wouldn't be MY responsibility to
> maintain :)
>
> Rachel
>
> --- Jack Silvey <jack_silvey_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 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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