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Re: Accessing Open Directory Information
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Re: Accessing Open Directory Information


  • Subject: Re: Accessing Open Directory Information
  • From: "Matthew W. Taylor" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 17:34:27 -0500

> IIRC, you could do this with a plugin for the JNDI adaptor, which is
> not to suggest that I ever got it to function.  :-)  I don't actually
> need to query against a bound, authenticated connection.  I was just
> wondering how much effort it would be to use OpenDirectory to
> authenticate users rather than storing a user ID and credential in
> the app's database.  If it supports TLS then it will be little effort.

If you're just looking to _authenticate_ and not authorize, you might want
to look at JAAS and the sun provided Kerberos module.  I align many of my
apps against campus-wide directories and databases. To do this, I basically
pass login tokens given to a WOApp (with filtering) to a JAAS login callback
function for authenticating against Kerberos, both against a Mac OS X system
and other Kerberos KDCs.

Since I typically use JAAS/Kerberos for only for authentication, I use
JNDI/LDAP for everything else.

I can give you more examples off or online this seems like something useful.

-=- matthew taylor
    northwestern university

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