need help with LDAP plug-in code and liblber dependency

Praveenkumar Sahukar psahukar at novell.com
Mon May 29 07:20:44 EDT 2006


Hi,

>>> On Fri, May 26, 2006 at  6:55 AM, in message
<tsld5e1h90o.fsf at cz.mit.edu>, Sam
Hartman <hartmans at MIT.EDU> wrote: 
> Wait, why does the ldap command need to bind using a different
> identity than the kdc will use?
> 

The KDC and the ADMIN services have READ only rights on the Realm
Attributes. However,
to manage the Realm, WRITE rights are needed and hence the ldap command
(kdb5_ldap_util)
uses an identity different from the KDC and the ADMIN identities. 

Thanks and Regards,
Praveen Kumar




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