Howard Chu wrote:
> Likewise in the Mozilla Browser/nss_ldap situation, the credentials 
> needed for LDAP authentication will probably be quite different from the 
> credentials needed for web browsing or personal addressbook lookups. It 
> would be extremely bad if simply using Mozilla on a system with 
> nss_ldap/LDAP/MozNSS allowed arbitrary browser users to get privileged 
> secure connections to their authentication server just by adding a new 
> AddressBook definition.

Isn't that a matter of server-side trust and authz? Also a client app 
would have to provide a UI for choosing which client cert to use. Maybe 
I didn't fully understand what you meant though.

> I've now gotten OpenLDAP libldap running with the PSM/NSS instance 
> inside my Seamonkey browser, but it's only using the browser's 
> already-configured databases at the moment.

Well, that would be something I'd like to use. ;-)

Ciao, Michael.
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