RE: [JDEV] weird new authentication/roster idea

["Patrick McCuller" <patrick@kia.net>]

	I've been working with LDAP for years. I'll be glad to help. I've been
watching Jabber for a while, waiting mostly for a more complete
implementation. As you point out, Jeremie, that's fast coming along, and I'm
glad to see it. Especially good timing, too, as ICQ is toast (say hello to
AIM++).


Patrick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-jdev@jabber.org [mailto:owner-jdev@jabber.org]On Behalf Of
> Jeremie
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 11:18 AM
> To: jdev@jabber.org
> Subject: Re: [JDEV] weird new authentication/roster idea
>
>
>
> > as I look at the state of the authentication and roster pieces
> of Jabber,
> > i notice that mod_mysql is in the pipeline. May I suggest a
> different way
> > to do this stuff? Why not... LDAP? It is especially good for
> applications
> > like this, it appears. It is explicitly designed to handle
> authentication
> > and could certainly support rosters and other metadata, and
> hold pointers
> > to stored messages. I haven't researched this fully, but it may
> also help
> > with converting SMTP messages to Jabber messages. I might be
> way off base
> > here, but a full-blown SQL database seems a bit heavy to me. :)
> A problem
> > may be that the only free LDAP implementation I know of is not
> GPLed, but
> > Artistic (see http://www.openldap.org) but I think other GPL
> projects are
> > using it. (since the lib is only linked to in the client, it
> may not be a
> > problem) Anyway, it sure sounds cool :) Anyone have ideas on
> this system?
>
> Funny, I was just reading more on LDAP yesterday :)
>
> IMHO, there will definately be a mod_ldap at some point since your right,
> it's perfect for handling most of the needs of the server side, handling
> user meta-data and such.  It will be much easier to write based off
> mod_mysql or any other module once they become more complete, which will
> happen over the next few months.
>
> > hey, wow! Bricktext!
>
> Very cool, especially if totally by accident!
>
> Jer
>
>