Re: [Slashcode-general] LDAP

[Markus A. <mar...@ub...>]

al...@ya... wrote:
> I have several websites (or parts of websites) including a slash site which require
> the same user database. My users of DiverseBooks.com don't quite realise that the
> http://news.DiverseBooks.com slash site has a different user database to the
> http://www.DiverseBooks.com java servlet based site. They complain to me about
> not being able to login in without realising that it is a different site. :-(
> 
> Since the software which makes up the site is quite varied (java progs and perl progs)
> it seems that LDAP would be a good middleware between these apps and their user databases.
> There is discussion of LDAP enabling my java programs so I can ignore them for now.

Why don't you just use the Slash DB with your java programs? It's MySQL,
the schema is public, and it's even allowed to add another table in case
you need to save more info for your www-page than is assumed for plain
slash.

LDAP can be quite an PITA to setup and maintain securely.

Markus.