On Fri, 12 May 2006 10:55:29 +0100, Jens Vagelpohl wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On 12 May 2006, at 10:42, Sam Stainsby wrote: > >> On Fri, 12 May 2006 09:41:53 +0100, Jens Vagelpohl wrote: >> >>> Just out of curiosity, why do you use PAM-LDAP with Apache as opposed >>> to mod_auth_ldap? >> >> Good question. No major reason, but we expect to use PAM LDAP for >> other >> services on our servers, since LDAP centrally controls our >> authentication, so I took the more general solution. > > Ah, I'd be worried whether adding the additional layer (PAM) isn't > going to slow you down. > > jens
Its only an intranet web server, not a public one, so the traffic isn't huge. I expect that the true bottleneck will lie in communicating with the LDAP server over the WAN rather than the local authentication method. _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )