> Awhile back, "Magnus Hagander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This patch adds native LDAP auth, for those platforms that > don't have > > PAM (such as Win32, but also unixen without PAM). On Unix, uses > > OpenLDAP. On win32, uses the builin WinLDAP library. > > Is this patch still live, or do you want to withdraw it in > light of the recent discussions about using libcurl?
I'm unsure wether libcurl does what we'd need, but I haven't looked into the details (I did a very quick check on the web, but was unable to quickly find what I was looking for). Specifically, we want to just do an LDAP bind and not actually fetch anything. Though I guess we could fetch the base DN without taking a lot of performance... Also, I'm unsure if they'll run with winldap on windows or add an extra library dependence on openldap (which will cause problems when using ldaps in windows, since you need a completely separate set of certificates and stuff imported into openldap instead of using what Windows alreayd set up for you). Their FAQ says they require openldap, but a quick google shows maybe they don't. Was there ever a decision in "the libcurl thread"? If we're going to pull in libcurl as a dependency anyway, it would deifnitly be worthwhile checking if we can use it here as well, if nothing else then just to get rid of the configure steps. But if we don't use it elsewhere, I don't see any reason to add an extra dependency. //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match