[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk vs. system user accounts

[Steven Critchfield]

Just a note, could you file a bug report about the way kmail deals with
your pgp signature? The way it currently deals with it is really just
noise to your message. If it was handled correctly then my email client
would actually go ahead and verify your message. As it is, I see the
signature, but it doesn't get verified and is essentially worthless.

On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 01:00, Rainer Jochem wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I think LDAP (or perhaps even better: an generic ODBC interface) is really the 
> way you want:

ODBC == BAD
ODBC is the lowest common denominator for database connections. In this
case a full blown database is overkill for lookups mainly. You don't
need the whole SQL stuff. This is why LDAP would be okay, it essentially
is a flat file that can be searched fast and remotely.

> 	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.

-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>