LDAP bind() versus Kerberos authentication (performance perspective)

2008-12-05 Thread Nagendra G S
Anyone have any information about the relative merits ( w.r.t performance ) of using Kerberos authentication instead of LDAP bind() for authentication in a large environment ? (around 30 authns per second) thanks, Nagendra Kerberos mailing list

Re: LDAP bind() versus Kerberos authentication (performance perspective)

2008-12-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Nagendra G S [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone have any information about the relative merits ( w.r.t performance ) of using Kerberos authentication instead of LDAP bind() for authentication in a large environment ? (around 30 authns per second) You'll have a hard time finding a server slow

Credentials Cache File Problem Running with 'cron'

2008-12-05 Thread Dennis Putnam
I have what I thought was a perl problem using Kerberos authentication. However, after many emails with perl experts, the consensus is that this is really a problem with the Kerberos library. Hopefully, someone on this list will recognize the problem an can suggest a solution. This

Re: Credentials Cache File Problem Running with 'cron'

2008-12-05 Thread Alexandra Ellwood
On Dec 5, 2008, at 7:15 AM, Dennis Putnam wrote: I have what I thought was a perl problem using Kerberos authentication. However, after many emails with perl experts, the consensus is that this is really a problem with the Kerberos library. Hopefully, someone on this list will recognize the

Re: Credentials Cache File Problem Running with 'cron'

2008-12-05 Thread Dennis Putnam
Thanks for the reply. That was suggested also but it appeared that the OS X implementation did not use that variable. However, your format is different then what was suggested. Specifically, the 'FILE:'. While that variable does not exist I assumed when I created it and got the same error