On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 12:03:07AM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
I'm not sure if I understood this correctly. How does TCB and LDAP fit together? Does TCB simply provide LDAP view for its data? So is your patch only about handling the extra LDAP fields, or is it about providing some completely TCB-specific code (and LDAP being something else)?
LDAP and TCB are two different things. We simply want to handle extra LDAP attribute (i.e. in addition of uid, homeDirectory, uidNumber, gidNumber and userPassword) because they are meant to provide the same extra (and valuable) authentication info that the TCB fields did (thus providing a way to know that, for instance, a user user agent has made 20 consecutive attempts to log in with an incorrect password and to lock it's account for that reason).
We'll let you know when we're done anyway.
Thanks.
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