LDAP and mySQL

[Nicolas Baradakis]

Bubuk Gabrok wrote:

> I have came thru a number of references which states that LDAP are
> specialised database and optimized for read.

You should setup the system you're the most familiar with. Unless
you've *huge* RADIUS traffic on your site (more than 500 req/s) you
won't notice the performance differences.

> Would that make it a good idea to authenticate thru LDAP *but* the
> accounting is handled thru mySQL ? Anybody have done this or am I
> talking nonsense here?

This is common to use OpenLDAP for auth and MySQL for acct.

http://freeradius.org/radiusd/doc/ldap_howto.txt

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Nicolas Baradakis