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Re: How to limit it ?



On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, charlesiii@theverge.com wrote:
>Can you have the LDAP info sent across the network encrypted.
>How fast is LDAP? How much data is sent.

LDAP isn't so slow, but it has a longer latency.  If you are performing
synchronous operations on users (EG running a script to check the ownership
on each home directory) then doing it through LDAP can make it take more than
5 times longer (it did for me when I was testing this).
However as my Linux laptop running LDAP was still twice as fast as the AIX
machine I was deploying on I wasn't so worried about performance.  ;)

You can do LDAP over SSL.  I've never done it, but I don't expect it to be
that difficult.
Of course if your LDAP server is local and only allows connections from
127.0.0.1 then SSL isn't really needed.

-- 
Electronic information tampers with your soul.


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