Re: ldap info

2002-06-11 Thread Jack Silvey
my last gig was senior DBA at an internet travel shop, and we used LDAP to authenticate users. Since it is really just a glorified list sitting in memory, it is perfectly suited to small, straightforward uses such as this. We did not use oracle LDAP, but another vendor that I can't remember.

Re: ldap info

2002-06-11 Thread Rachel Carmichael
thanks! that's pretty much the way we want to use it as well, for a universal login across any of our websites. Sun has an LDAP that we are looking at as well. The plus is, it's free. and we don't need another oracle license etc etc etc and even better, it wouldn't be MY responsibility to

Re: ldap info

2002-06-11 Thread Jack Silvey
free is good, especially when it comes to ldap and beer. ;) jack --- Rachel Carmichael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks! that's pretty much the way we want to use it as well, for a universal login across any of our websites. Sun has an LDAP that we are looking at as well. The plus is,

RE: ldap info

2002-06-11 Thread Larry Elkins
Jack, What was the internet travel company? Regards, Larry G. Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] 214.954.1781 my last gig was senior DBA at an internet travel shop, -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Larry Elkins INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network

RE: ldap info

2002-06-11 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
Oracle LDAP is free if you have purchased the full-blown version of iAS. Ian MacGregor Stanford Linear Accelerator Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 1:35 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L One of the users here came to me to talk about

RE: ldap info

2002-06-11 Thread Rachel Carmichael
we aren't using iAS. --- MacGregor, Ian A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oracle LDAP is free if you have purchased the full-blown version of iAS. Ian MacGregor Stanford Linear Accelerator Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 1:35 PM To:

RE: ldap info

2002-06-11 Thread Jack Silvey
XXtra online, owner of powertrip and MyTrip. Yet another failed dotcom in the vast wasteland of free money and no management to speak of. --- Larry Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jack, What was the internet travel company? Regards, Larry G. Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] 214.954.1781

Re: LDAP deployment

2001-12-20 Thread Connor McDonald
Very briefly, we found: a) it works fine b) its a pain to setup since the doco (at 8i) was scant to say the least c) the error handling was poor, namely, every kind of error gave a generic An error has occurred type of message So there is some short term pain, but once its done, it works well

Re: LDAP and Oracle

2001-08-15 Thread DBarbour
No, but I'd also be mighty interested to hear about the details. My problem here is that I've got a couple of applications (heck, most of the applications - including all the Oracle ones) that are not LDAP compliant. Most have their own internal security setup. David A. Barbour Oracle DBA, OCP

RE: LDAP

2001-06-21 Thread Guy Hammond
iPlanet are what's left of Netscape Corporation's server products group, after they were eaten by the unholy alliance of Sun and AOL. They had an application server (Netscape App Server, nee Kiva plus LiveWire) which used a mysterious combination of C++ and JavaScript to create AppLogic(tm). It

RE: LDAP

2001-06-20 Thread Mohan, Ross
Stephane, This was very interesting...I am still perking on this...i have looked at the dbmsldap package, and admit to some ignoranceit seems that this PL/SQL package is good for making calls to OID (Oracle's LDAP) but I do not see how these package calls could be used to access the

Re: LDAP

2001-06-20 Thread Jonathan Gennick
I wouldn't look for it anytime soon. I recently spoke to the OID product manager about this issue, and he not only held out no hope for this, he asserted that the correct approach was to use meta-directory technology to sync OID with iPlanet. He also told me that the LDAP standards are a bit

Re: LDAP

2001-06-20 Thread Joe Raube
I work for a consulting firm that specializes in iPlanet offerings. iPlanet offers a web server, application server, and LDAPand more. See http://www.iplanet.com/ Somewhat in competition? At my firm, they are in direct competition. I am presenting Oracle 9iAS this Friday to the group, to

Re: LDAP

2001-06-13 Thread Stephane Faroult
Mohan, Ross wrote: Anyone have any idea when/if the Net8 clients will support/interface with Netscape/iPlanet LDAP offerings? Any thoughts welcome...! -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Mohan, Ross INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ross, I don't

Re: LDAP/OID

2001-06-01 Thread Stephane Faroult ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Dave Morgan wrote: Hi all, OID is not worth the hassle of installing, but, has anyone used a regular LDAP server to hold Oracle database information? Details would be appreciatted. TIA Dave -- Dave Morgan DBA, Cybersurf Office: 403 777 2000 ext 284 What do

Re: LDAP/OID

2001-06-01 Thread SuzyV
Four years ago, I worked on a project to publish employee/people data sourced in Oracle to Netscape LDAP. We first mapped our relational data to V3 objectclasses attributes, and defined our own objectclasses attributes as needed. Then we created a table that held: primary_key table_name