> On Jul 29, 2015, at 11:27 PM, Brian Wall <kc0iog at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 10:50 PM, Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman at cwis.biz> wrote: >> Another possibility would be having an LDAP front end that read the MySQL database. I have not had any luck with that in the past. > > If that's the case, what value does the SQL database give you? Why > not just use a directory based product? > http://opensource.com/business/14/5/top-4-open-source-ldap-implementations <http://opensource.com/business/14/5/top-4-open-source-ldap-implementations> I had so many issues when I ran OpenLDAP that I had to dump the whole thing and re-build my authentication scripts to run off the MySQL server. This way I can have my scripts maintain the SQL data and when I need an LDAP interface I can do it off that data. > Not mentioned, you could also set up Samba 4 as an Active Directory > server. FreeRADIUS should be able to authenticate against any LDAP > source. This is something I hadn’t thought of… still a PITA but the tools of management are far more robust. Thanks! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20150730/dc49e484/attachment.html>