Hi all;

I decided that I wanted to bring this up here before I decide whether to submit a proposal to -hackers. After all, this would reach a larger section of users than would -hackers.

Basically, I think it would be very nice to be able to use client vertificates to actually authenticate users. I can see a few ways of doing this:

1)  Using the cert to authenticate with a given ldap server.
2) Configuring to use a specific base dn and grabbing a uid field to use as the username.
3)  Providing a mapping of the dn to username via some configuration file.

I suspect that option 2 would be the most useful, but I wanted to see how other people thought this might need to work.

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers

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