The only clean way to authenticate external users to SharePoint is with a solution like ADFS and federated identity. SharePoint doesn't use LDAP internally for auth and you can't really make it.
Federation does give you the ability to have your external users use their own organization's accounts to access your resources (SharePoint in this case). ADFS is non-trivial to set up, but it is "the way" that these things will be done in the future. Joe K. On 9/19/06, Ramon Linan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
HI, I have a SharePoint site for a client, it is driving me crazy because the sales people are telling me that the users for this site, cant have their password expiring. The client is a government agency, so I don't want to be responsible for any information being stolen. How big of a security risk is not having password expiring? it seems to me like security 101, but the sales guy is saying that banks don't ask you to change your password every X day, good point. Something I was thinking is having SharePoint authenticating with their LDAP server, is this possible to do? can anybody point to a url on how to do this? thanks Rezuma
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