Hi Steve,
On Oct 8, 2:45pm, Hugh Irvine wrote:
> Subject: Re: (RADIATOR) Which LDAP module?
> On Fri, 08 Oct 1999, Steve Ames wrote:
> > Quick question for someone. I'm running RADIATOR on FreeBSD 3.3. I
> > just configured it to use LDAP per the installation manual. The manual
> > said to use LDAPapi which I did. Here's where the confusion comes in.
> > The configuration file said to use Net::LDAP instead as LDAPapi has
> > been deprecated (its <AuthBy LDAP> and Net::LDAP is <AuthBy LDAP2>).
> >
> > Neither of those is in the FreeBSD ports collection so ease of
> > installation isn't a factor. On the other hand there _is_ a perl LDAP
> > module in the FreeBSD ports collection called perldap
> > (ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/directory/perldap/). Would this work with
> > FreeBSD and OpenLDAP?
Some more information in addition to hugh's reply:
There is nothing to stop the perldap and AuthBy LDAP working on FreeBSD, its
just that the continuing availability of perldap is in doubt, and if you had a
choice, you would go with LDAP2 and Net::LDAP
Cheers.
> >
>
> You should use <AuthBy LDAP2> and perl-ldap (see below).
>
> Be wary of trying to use OpenLDAP - we have had a number of customers report
> problems using it - YMMV. We have successfully tested with the University of
> Michigan LDAP and Netscape LDAP.
>
> If you do succeed with OpenLDAP, we would be very interested to hear what you
> had to do to make it work. We will put an entry in the FAQ so others can
> benefit from your endeavours.
>
> > Which is the best overall perl LDAP module to use?
>
> I am using perl-ldap-0.12:
>
> #
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> hth
>
> Hugh
>
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