Re: ldap vs db auth

--On Tuesday, February 4, 2025 9:18 AM +0000 Marc Marc@f1-outsourcing.eu wrote:

I was actually wondering how ldap compares to mariadb or other databases for authentication. Has anyone actually tested this?

SQL dbs tend to be several orders of magnitude slower for operations, not sure about binds. Feel free to test and let us know.

On the OpenLDAP side, the hashing mechanism used for the password will of course affect how long operations take (I imagine the same for SQL dbs if they support different hashing mechanisms). For example, ARGON2 is some 400x slower for a BIND operation than SSHA512.

--Quanah