[ale] How LDAP works with authentication

[jasonday at worldnet.att.net (Jason Day)]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 08:42:15PM -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> You've answered my question about retrieval of the password.  This will
> not work with getpwnam().  I will have to implement something like PAM
> and integrate in all code that does auth.

Ouch.  Are you sure?  Once you authenticate to the LDAP server, you can
retrieve the user object, which should have most, if not all, of the
information you would need to implement getpwnam.  Except the password,
but do you need it at that point?
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