[Zope] Re: Re: Re: Zope to ldif

[Sam Stainsby]

On Fri, 12 May 2006 10:55:29 +0100, Jens Vagelpohl wrote:

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> On 12 May 2006, at 10:42, Sam Stainsby wrote:
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>> On Fri, 12 May 2006 09:41:53 +0100, Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
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>>> Just out of curiosity, why do you use PAM-LDAP with Apache as opposed
>>> to mod_auth_ldap?
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>> Good question. No major reason, but we expect to use PAM LDAP for  
>> other
>> services on our servers, since LDAP centrally controls our
>> authentication, so I took the more general solution.
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> Ah, I'd be worried whether adding the additional layer (PAM) isn't  
> going to slow you down.
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> jens

Its only an intranet web server, not a public one, so the traffic isn't
huge. I expect that the true bottleneck will lie in communicating with the
LDAP server over the WAN rather than the local authentication method.