On Thu, 23 Nov 2000 23:54:23 -0800 Chuq Von Rospach chuqui@plaidworks.com wrote:

At 11:45 PM -0800 11/23/00, J C Lawrence wrote:

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True. As happens I'm more tempted by LDAP.

I tend to think that the mailman <-> authentication interface is going to be gnarly enough that it'll be a custom API. But I also think that having PAM and LDAP access to the data will also important to have for access in other ways -- PAM solves my problem for archive access in apache wonderfully, and either PAM or LDAP would make it easier to evolve my web forums into using a sitewide account/password setup, which is something I really want down the road.

I don't see them as exclusive:

http://www.padl.com/pam_ldap.html

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