kerberos programming and ldap

[Russ Allbery]

melissa benkyo <wyl_lyf at yahoo.com> writes:

> hello!!! thanks for the resposnse I was hoping not to use SASL since
> this means that it is a third party software. I was planning on using
> the native protocols available to the OS such as the ldap and the
> kerberos.

Native to what OS?  The Cyrus SASL libraries are just as standard on Linux
as the OpenLDAP libraries are.  I don't think of SASL as any less native
than LDAP.

> Do u know how to use the kerberos with ldap? so is it not possible now
> to use kerberos directly with ldap since this is a LDAP v3?

Part of the point of LDAP v3 was to standardize use of SASL to do
authentication.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>