[30502] in Kerberos
Re: LDAP bind() versus Kerberos authentication (performance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russ Allbery)
Fri Dec 5 05:01:58 2008
To: "Nagendra G S" <nagendra.gs@gmail.com>
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(Nagendra G. S.'s message of "Fri\, 5 Dec 2008 14\:31\:41 +0530")
From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:00:21 -0800
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"Nagendra G S" <nagendra.gs@gmail.com> writes:
> Anyone have any information about the relative merits ( w.r.t performance )
> of using Kerberos authentication instead of LDAP bind() for authentication
> in a large environment ? (around 30 authns per second)
You'll have a hard time finding a server slow enough to have difficulty
doing that authentication load using Kerberos. Kerberos is significantly
more efficient for authentication than LDAP binds.
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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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