Re: [ldapext] Request for feedback: draft-wibrown-ldapssotoken

[Clément OUDOT <[e-mail]>]

Le 05/09/2016 à 00:35, William Brown a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I would like to ask for feedback on the submission
> draft-wibrown-ldapssotoken [0]. Section 5 deals with the ldap components
> of the implementation.
>
> Thank you for your time and advice,
>
> [0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wibrown-ldapssotoken/
>

Hi,

this draft is really interesting and indeed provides a solution when no 
Kerberos is available.

I was wondering if we could not get quite same behavior with proxy 
authentication and standard single-sign on mechanisms: the user is known 
by the web application trough token (JWT or whatever) and then the web 
application authenticates for this user using LDAP proxy authz.

Other remark, you don't give any hint on how the LDAP server should 
manage its token database. Maybe it is intended as each LDAP server 
should implement its own way, but we may think of standard LDAP objects 
that could be used to manage these tokens directly in LDAP, instead of 
using a separate database?

Regards,

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Clément OUDOT
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