[unisog] LDAP access for 3rd parties

[Reg Quinton]

Peter is correct, it's not an LDAP issue, it's providing your credentials to
off-site services (same problem applies when you provide your credentials to
many servers on site ;-).

Many use CAS (see http://www.ja-sig.org/products/cas/). I'm in progress
struggling with an external vendor and getting them to cas-enable their
application. It's not trivial, but works well enough when done.

> > Every external vendor I have worked with takes the password supplied
> > by the "user",
> 
> and BANG!  They have a userid and password.  If you're a place
> with a single userid/password for most applications, there could
> be a fair amount of value to it.
> 
> A better scheme would be sending control to university machine, which
> accepts the credentials and then sends the 3rd party a yes/no...
> Similar
> to how it is done with some types of credit card verifications.
> 
> --
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