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Correct.  We have a customer with many users.  They claim to use LDAP to
store all their user records.  When a user logs into Winbloze that
desktop authenticates via LDAP.

What I want to do is to allow our device to authenticate in the same
manner using the same records.  I do not want to have to create a
special format that will force them to keep double entries of all users.

I do not want write.  I simply need to authenticate a user via the
password that is store in LDAP.

What Im trying to figure out is that if I can implement getpwnam(const
char *user) to get data from LDAP instead of /etc/passwd.

I have no clue what they use.  I have OpenLDAP on my desktop but have
not configured it.  I imagine they use something standard so that all
their devices authenticate via that method.

> 
> LDAP itself is merely a protocol that allows creation/update/retrieval
> of records that can be
> anything you have a schema for.  If you have control of the server and
> you can grow your
> own user authentication client, you can use practically any encoding
> you like.  If you are
> going to have passwords stored in plaintext, then you certainly want
> SSL.
> 
> MD5 encoding is common enough to simplify testing.




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