Problems with login to Chat

[Matthew Darwin]

If you want to continue this thread, you might move it to
flora.comnet-www.... A bunch of techies hang out over there.

If you don't get flora.*, ask your news admin to carry it. If you're
the news admin, mail rus...@flora.org and ask for a feed.

--
Matthew Darwin Westend Family Cinema
mat...@davin.ottawa.on.ca (home) cin...@flora.org
dar...@loran.com (work) http://www.flora.org/cinema/

Mike Shaver <sha...@engsoc.carleton.ca> wrote:
> Alex deVries (adev...@engsoc.carleton.ca) wrote:
> : Mike Shaver (sha...@engsoc.carleton.ca) wrote:
> : : You know, if you weren't so married to that silly Solaris, you'd have lots
> : : of other options. Like ndbm/LDAP/mSQL/whatever authentication.
> :
> : (Actually, NIS[+] uses ndbm for its indexing method, no?)

> Might very well..I don't do NIS. =)

> : I think the LDAP idea is pretty cool... you could kill a few dozen birds
> : with one stone by using NorTel's LDAP interface to their X.500 directory,
> : and setup a proper user database. Plus, certificates! I can smell IPSEC in
> : the air...

> Don't all LDAP systems talk to X.500?
> I know the UMich stuff does, and since the Netscape Directory Server is
> essentially the UMich stuff warmed over and SSL-ified, it should too.

> Certificat distribution over LDAP is a great idea, but floating certificates
> are a pain.

> Also, sendmail talks LDAP just fine.

> : Actually, maybe all of this should be done with a real enterprise class
> : database system... like a Pyramid Nile, or a VMS box... \

> Yikes!
> What does that buy you, other than problems porting software? =)

> : I imagine the
> : Slowaris authentication modules would be a pain to write, but at least the
> : Linux PAM stuff would be a piece of cake.

> 1) PAM works on Solaris as well. I think it started there, in fact.
> 2) /usr/lib/security -- same idea, different implementation.

> : ps. How long must we wait before the we can drop the first 'n' off of
> : 'ndbm'?

> Probably never.

> Mike