Erl LDAP server

[Sean Hinde]

Hi,

No, not possible. My point was that it is trivial to write your own.

Sean

On 30 Aug 2005, at 11:09, Eranga Udesh wrote:

> Sean,
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> Would you be able to share that with me (us - the community) please?
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> Thanks!
> - Eranga
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Hinde [mailto:sean.hinde@REDACTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 2:58 PM
> To: Eranga Udesh
> Cc: Erlang Questions
> Subject: Re: Erl LDAP server
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> On 30 Aug 2005, at 09:36, Mickael Remond wrote:
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>> Eranga Udesh wrote:
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>>> Uffe,
>>> Thanks for the pointers. I went through them already. Looks like
>>> there's no
>>> already developed one, isn't it?
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>> I made some draft work already but never manage to get it finished.
>> My plans was to support a fixed commonly used LDAP schema to use he
>> resulting software as a basis for authentication.
>> I reach a point were I was able to log into several Linux
>> Workstation using PAM LDAP pointing to the Erlang small LDAP server.
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>> I think Erlang provides everything to write a very nice and
>> performant LDAP server as ASN.1 library is good and you have Mnesia
>> to store your data and access them with low latency.
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>> Samuel Tardieu wrote some years ago an LDAP server in Erlang and
>> told me it was lightning fast, but it never reach the point where
>> the code was satisfying enough for him to get published.
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>> I think writing such a server is relatively easy with fixed schema
>> and can get much much more complicated if you plan to support
>> schema definition and change.
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> Yep, There is another one out there that I started and Chandru
> finished off. Fixed schema (several fixed schemas actually). It is
> nothing more than a pattern match across the asn.1 structures (which
> could be directly taken from from eldap), with a simple state machine
> to cover bind (login).
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> It was very fast.
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> Sean
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