On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 13:05 -0600, Jason Gerfen wrote: > Daniel Drake wrote: <snip> > >> Third, after doing some investigation of Active Directory it is > >> possible to implement a photo binary schema attribute for all users > >> following the guide > >> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms953636.aspx shown here. > >> For OpenLDAP I have found the following: > >> http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/schema.html (Section 12.2.4.2 > >> x-my-Photo) > >> > >> And an RFC regarding this schema attribute: > >> http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2798.txt > >> > >> MySQL has the blob field type to handle binary data such as photo's. > >> One thing I would like to do with this is to ensure we have 'all' > >> account data available so local accounts on a Unix/Linux system is not > >> needed. Much like a roaming profile, an example of a MySQL database > >> table to manage this would be something like: > > > > Now you've lost me even more :) > > Photos? How does that relate to fingerprint based authentication? > > > > Fingerprint Image storage. Everything is a photo to me. Let me know if > you need more explanation.
First, x-my-photo is only for photos/faces of the person, not for random images. Secondly, datatypes exist to store blobs of data such as this, but you still need a schema standard to store those (or at least a de-facto standard, which the RH/Fedora Directory Server is). I'll add that most setups would store multiple fingerprints for each user, for which you need multiple attributes. Finally, some device don't use images, and process binary blobs... Cheers _______________________________________________ fprint mailing list [email protected] http://lists.reactivated.net/mailman/listinfo/fprint
