Re: Is it possible to use Unix user-based authentication for LDAP?

On 13 August 2011 02:30, Mehmet <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there a way to use methods that require write access (add, delete, etc)
> without providing a password? I want my script run as a cronjob and I do not
> want to keep the password in a file or the code itself. In particular, I
> would like to give LDAP-write access to a unix user, say "ldap". I was
> wondering if it is possible to tell ldap server that 'ldap' user is the
> Manager? If not, is there a good way to hide the password in Perl?

I wonder whether you really need to involve LDAP at all;
you're not very specific about the use-case, but to me it
rings like a classical case of "use passwordless ssh"
to achieve what you're after.



Cheers,
Andrej