[NGO] ldap vs generic plone authentication

[sisi]

Hi Andrew and Andrew,

Unfortunately it's looking very unlikely that I am going to be able to
make the seattle conference. So, I'll drop Duncan a line and ask him to
send me the Oxfam ldap info. My questions at this stage are more to do
with the why's of ldap rather than the how's :-)

Thanks for your emails!
sisi

AHatton at Oxfam.org.uk wrote:
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> Sisi,
> 
> This is based on the Oxfam integration of LDAP into Plone.
> If you can't make the conf, or need the info before hand ping Duncan.
> He has the lowdown on this, we can then share back to the group via the
> list if relevant.
> 
> Andrew
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> 	*Andrew Burkhalter <andrewb at onenw.org>*
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> 
> 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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# sisi nutt # extranet coordinator
# Friends of the Earth International
# PO Box 19199 # 1000 GD Amsterdam # The Netherlands
# Tel 31 20 6221369  # Fax 31 20 6392181  # http://www.foei.org
# email sisi at foei.org # skype foei_sisi