Authentication

Quick question for the group.

I'm in the process of writing a generic security component in C# .NET 
that will authenticate users against Active Directory, Local Windows 
Accounts and Novell. For Novell authentication, I'm using LDAP (e.g., 
Microsoft's System.DirectoryServies) to perform an SSL bind with the 
user's credentials. Everything works fine but I'm wondering if it would 
be better to use the C SDK/API to do the authentication. I would 
appreciate any feedback or comments.

Thanks in advance,
Anthony Yott

There should be no real reason for switching the component you
are using for basic LDAP work such as Binds all libraries should
work. Novell's libraries become useful when you start to use controls
and extensions, which you are unlikley to do if you wish to support
MS's directory.

Roger Thomas, DevNet SysOp 22

"ayott" <anthonyyott@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Quick question for the group.
>
> I'm in the process of writing a generic security component in C# .NET
> that will authenticate users against Active Directory, Local Windows
> Accounts and Novell. For Novell authentication, I'm using LDAP (e.g.,
> Microsoft's System.DirectoryServies) to perform an SSL bind with the
> user's credentials. Everything works fine but I'm wondering if it would
> be better to use the C SDK/API to do the authentication. I would
> appreciate any feedback or comments.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Anthony Yott
>
>
>