Importing would be OK, if the user database had encrypted passwords.  Clear 
text passwords are not only frowned upon here at RIT, but may even be against 
our computing policy.

When you say Linux, would that also include other UNIX systems such as Sun?

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
William W. Fisher
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 9:54 AM
To: InterMapper Discussion
Subject: Re: [IM-Talk] External User Authorization??



On Mar 29, 2006, at 4:52 PM, Jakob Peterhänsel wrote:

> Dartware, is there any plans to make hooks to external  
> autorizations, such as LDAP, RADIUS, AD, MySQL or something else?
> Maybe even move the preferences to something like SQlite so  
> external interfaces could be made possible.. ?

We can look at supporting Linux-PAM API's in the Mac OS X and Linux  
builds. RADIUS support will likely come later.


> Or, would it be possible to 'import' the userdatabase + allowed  
> maps list from external sources in the future?

That's another possibility.

Regards,

Bill Fisher
Dartware, 
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