MySQL Authentication

[rsilva]

Hi,

Great product btw. I was wondering if you had plans on providing either a MySQL specific or Abstract Database authentication module like mod_dbd in apache.

Thanks and keep up the great work.

Bob Silva

[xing]

Bob,

Not likely. LiteSpeed already supports LDAP authentication of which you can find server/wrapper implementations for pretty much all major open-source and commercial databases. Authenticate via LDAP server to access your favorite db backend.

[rsilva]

I'm not famaliar with any of these products you mentioned. Can you point me in the right direction for mysql? Or the proper terminology I can stick in google to do some research.

Or are you referring to using mysql as an LDAP backend?

Thanks

[mistwang]

Hi Bob,

You can search for "OpenLDAP MySQL", probably not as easy as using LiteSpeed. :-)

Instead of using LDAP, you can write a customized Fast CGI authorizer using your favorite DB as backend for authentication.

Due the license restriction, we cannot implement some thing like mod_dbd inside LiteSpeed, have to run the DB access part out of process and talk to LiteSpeed via socket connections.