[p4] LDAP authentication with encryption

[Tetlow, Gordon]

If you are planning on using Perforce against a Windows AD, you should
switch to using Kerberos instead of LDAP. There is plenty of example
code on the net that you can use to create your executable.

-gordon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com 
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of 
> markm at emeter.com
> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 10:14 AM
> To: perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: [p4] LDAP authentication with encryption
> 
> Has anyone set up Perforce to use LDAP as an external authentication
> method, and to also encrypt the authentication communication 
> to the LDAP
> server? Perforce tech support provided an authentication script that
> works fine, except for the fact that it only uses simple 
> authentication
> with the LDAP server. This method sends the passwords in clear text
> between the Perforce server and the LDAP server. Has anyone written a
> similar trigger that uses an encrypted binding to the LDAP server?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark
> 
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