On Samstag, 10. Mai 2008, Michael Ströder wrote: > Bernard T. Higonnet wrote: > > All browser offer to remember userid/password pairs (and more) and > > it seems to me this would fall, somewhat obviously, into a case of > > possible use of ldap, since it does authentication. > > Hmm, strictly speaking saving the passwords in the browser profile is > not "authentication". It's just a local convenience functionality for > web-based logins which does not necessarily have to with LDAP. > > > Obviously the web sites may use ldap for their > > own purposes, but I'm thinking of ldap for the site users. > > I vaguely remember LDAP-based roaming support in Netscape > Communicator 4.5. Never tried it myself though. I guess it wasn't > used much. Today's Mozilla products support "HTTP/FTP" and "file > copy" for roaming. > > For MS IE the browser profile is part of the user's Windows profile > which can be passed around as a roaming profile with AD. I'm not sure > how much this is LDAP-based and how stable it is. AFAIK the only thing that is LDAP-based with roaming profiles on Windows, is that the (UNC-)PATH to the profile is stored in the "profilePath"-Attribute of the user-objects.
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