I think Kerberos authentication will do what you need. This will require setting up a kerberos server, but that's not too difficult, but if this is the only think you need it for, it might be overkill.
Prentice On 08/12/2011 10:30 AM, Mehmet wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Your great replies to my previous question encouraged me to ask your opinion > on another issue that is not directly related to perl-LDAP, but rather to > LDAP itself. I am sorry if this is out-of-context, and please ignore this > email if you think it is, but here it comes: > > Is there a way to use methods that require write access (add, delete, etc) > without providing a password? I want my script run as a cronjob and I do not > want to keep the password in a file or the code itself. In particular, I > would like to give LDAP-write access to a unix user, say "ldap". I was > wondering if it is possible to tell ldap server that 'ldap' user is the > Manager? If not, is there a good way to hide the password in Perl? > > Thanks a lot! > -Mehmet >
