[plug] Magic Smoke

[Harry McNally]

On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 18:33:26 +0800 Ben Jensz <jensz at wn.com.au> wrote:

> Craig Ringer wrote:
<snip>
> > I just implemented LDAP authentication at home as an excersise before 
> > deploying it at Computer Angels. Liked it so much that now work's 
> > servers also authenticate users over LDAP (well, execpt the dodgy and 
> > finially soon-to-be-retired SCO box that doesn't understand LDAP and 
> > may not even understand NIS).
> >
> > Craig
> >
> I've looked at this and haven't found any decent HOWTO for doing this 
> that has actually worked.  The manual pages at openldap.org assume you 
> know what you're doing (from the point of view of someone who has never 
> used ldap).  So I've never gotten anywhere with it.  Would love to 
> implement it at work, it would cut down on having two sets of passwords.

This sounds mightily like a talk for PLUG but as I typed this I wondered
how this was going to help Ben-of-Broome :)

But then again .. <thinks> .. is it too geeky to figure out streaming said
presentation so Ben and others can attend ? This might have an impact on
venue for this talk but if we can set it up then it would be useful for
future events.

I'm not thinking about NetMeeting video etc but audio and presentation
graphics, some X windows, and chat for questions at the end. What is
possible with all these OSS tools at our fingertips ? :-) 

Just a random thought.

Harry

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