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[nycphp-talk] LDAP for web authorization?

csnyder chsnyder at gmail.com
Tue Nov 21 14:54:22 EST 2006


On 11/21/06, edward potter <edwardpotter at gmail.com> wrote:
> my understanding of LDAP (I was immersed in it for a bit back in the
> boom), is it's really optimized for name/address lookup applications
> (colleges, hospital directories, etc).  I know some people have tried
> to use it for securing directories at various levels, not sure how
> that worked out.

Some of those people work for Microsoft, and their implementation is
known as Active Directory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_directory

That's not a recommendation by any means, but there it is.

-- 
Chris Snyder
http://chxo.com/



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