Hi,

>On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Buchan Milne <bgmilne@staff.telkomsa.net> wrote:

>>On Wednesday, 14 December 2011 09:13:11 Jayavant Patil wrote:

>> Hi,

>>

>> I am using openldap-2.4.19-4.x86_64 on fedora 12 machine. On client

>> node, in /etc/ldap.conf file, we specify binddn and bindpw. If not

>> specified, the request will be anonymous. I have on each client machine

>> more than 500 users. I want to send the request to server as an

>> authenticated user but users are 500+. Then, how do I specify this in

>> binddn and bindpw. I don't want to specify 'root' (admin) in binddn and

>> bindpw. I have rootbinddn as root's dn and his password in /etc/ldap.secret

>> (mode 600).


>Create a (single, or per-host) "proxy user". I note that deploying Kerberos can be an option for >the per-host "proxy user" which has additional benefits.


>Regards,

>Buchan


But, Kerberos is a third party authentication service. Can we install it in our own premises(within intranet)?

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Thanks & Regards,
Jayavant Ningoji Patil
Engineer: System Software
Computational Research Laboratories Ltd.
Pune-411 004.
Maharashtra, India.
+91 9923536030.