[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk vs. system user accounts

[Rainer Jochem]

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Hi.

I think LDAP (or perhaps even better: an generic ODBC interface) is really the 
way you want:
	in a large environment (enterprise, university, ...) you often already have a
	central database of users. If you now want to add an * system, nobody wants
	to create thousands of user accounts on the asterisk machine. Additionaly,
	if you use * with more than one servers (for redundancy, load balancing,
	 ....), it is much easier to let all the * systems use an central LDAP server 
	for authentication rather to create system users on every single machine.

	It is also easier to provide an interface to the useres for letting them
	change their passwords (which is in my opinion also a very important
	security issue) if there is one central database.

Greetings
 Rainer

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