From: bjobrien62@gmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, December 3, 2013 6:21:02 AM UTC-7, Lew Pitcher wrote:   
   > On Thursday 28 November 2013 16:38, in   
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   > comp.protocols.tcp-ip, "SpreadTooThin"  wrote:   
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   > > I am writing an application that requires a user to log in.   
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   > > Rather than keeping a table of users and passwords, I'd like to use LDAP   
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   > > to authenticate the users.  (Is that what Lightweight Director Access   
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   > > Protocol was intended for?)   
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   > Actually, no. But that shouldn't stop you from trying to use it that way.   
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   > LDAP was developed as a low-overhead alternative to the X.500 Directory   
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   > Service, which (IIRC, at the time of LDAP's development) was primarily used   
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   > as an "Address book" for electronic messaging.   
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   > > Can someone point me to a low level document that explains the protocol?   
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   > As Rod said, see the RFCs   
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   > Lew Pitcher   
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   Would i be more successful looking at auth or x-auth?   
      
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