[NGO] ldap vs generic plone authentication

[Andrew Burkhalter]

I can't answer your question specifically, as I have no experience on  
the subject, but I can point out for anyone interested that there  
should be a very relevant session at the Plone Conference by Laurence  
Rowe, titled "Single Sign-on and LDAP."  I know this isn't an  
immediate conclusion though.

(Sisi, I believe you were planning to be here for the conference, so  
this is one of the sessions you can try and squeeze in.)

More information at:
http://plone.org/events/conferences/seattle-2006/agenda

Andrew


On Sep 25, 2006, at 8:29 AM, sisi wrote:

>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a question for all of you who have chosen to authenticate via
> ldap. I was planning on using ldap to authenticate my users on our
> extranet (still under development), but after a recent chat with  
> someone
> from amaze, I'm doubting the wisdom of this.
>
> We will host our extranet on a remote server (undecided as yet where),
> but we have an ldap server in our office network that we would like to
> use to replace a (groan) filemaker database (which has a contacts list
> of no more than 500 entries). Some but not all of this information we
> will also use in the profiles of our plone users.
>
> I wanted to tie everything in together, because there are so many
> overlaps, but I realise now that having an ldap server on our plone
> server, and one on our network server, is a little overkill.
>
> Can't I just use normal plone authentication and then use a script on
> the plone server to dump the information into ldap on our office  
> network
> server?
>
> Is there anyone who has used ldap on their plone site to communicate
> with an ldap server in a remote location? And why did you choose to do
> this? I'm just not a database expert, ldap is giving me a headache  
> and I
> really can't remember why I made the decision I made anymore!
>
> Thanks for any sanity going,
> sisi
>
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