Re: Is it possible to use Unix user-based authentication for LDAP?

2011-08-17 Thread Buchan Milne
On Friday, 12 August 2011 16:30:26 Mehmet wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Your great replies to my previous question encouraged me to ask your > opinion on another issue that is not directly related to perl-LDAP, but > rather to LDAP itself. I am sorry if this is out-of-context, and please > ignore this

Re: Is it possible to use Unix user-based authentication for LDAP?

2011-08-17 Thread Andrej
On 13 August 2011 02:30, Mehmet wrote: > Is there a way to use methods that require write access (add, delete, etc) > without providing a password? I want my script run as a cronjob and I do not > want to keep the password in a file or the code itself. In particular, I > would like to give LDAP-wr

Re: Is it possible to use Unix user-based authentication for LDAP?

2011-08-17 Thread Mehmet
Hi Andrej, I am working on a perl script that will run as a cronjob and modify LDAP entries when necessary. This involves collecting information from nodes and recording them into LDAP at runtime, so passwordless SSH will not do the trick by itself. Thanks! -Mehmet On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 2:39

Re: Is it possible to use Unix user-based authentication for LDAP?

2011-08-17 Thread Prentice Bisbal
On 08/17/2011 02:39 PM, Andrej wrote: > On 13 August 2011 02:30, Mehmet wrote: >> Is there a way to use methods that require write access (add, delete, etc) >> without providing a password? I want my script run as a cronjob and I do not >> want to keep the password in a file or the code itself. In