[Fedora-directory-users] fds and oracle authentication

[Richard Megginson]

Bliss, Aaron wrote:
> Were running fds in our environment; it's running great, however I was
> wondering if it's possible to use the directory servers to authenticate
> Oracle database users against?  I know that Oracle has an application
> called Oracle Internet Directory server, however I would rather not put
> up yet another directory server.  Any thoughts?  Thanks very much.
>   
Do you want to authenticate users to LDAP using their Oracle 
credentials?  Maybe there is an odbc SASL data source?  Then it might be 
possible to configure the DS SASL to use it.  Can PAM be configured to 
auth against a database?  If so, then you could use the PAM passthrough 
plugin.  Otherwise, this sounds like a job for a BIND pre-op plugin.

Or do you want to authenticate users to Oracle apps using their LDAP 
credentials?  I don't know how LDAP aware Oracle apps are, but in most 
cases I've seen this involves some sort of sync process by which 
passwords and other data are synchronized between Oracle and LDAP.
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