[NGO] ldap vs generic plone authentication

[sisi]

Paul Roeland wrote:
> Peter Hollands wrote:
>> On Tuesday 26 September 2006 11:35, Paul Roeland wrote:
> 
> Peter,
> 
> unfortunately we have no experience in that, since we run our external
> services on a co-located machine. That means we have full control, and
> thus can easily run our own LDAP replica on it.
> Prices for co-location and also renting a dedicated server have fallen
> dramatically here in the Netherlands, a co-location setup can be had for
> about 20 Euro a month including traffic, putting it well within our
> financial reach, it's actually cheaper than most hosted services.

Right, but many smaller ngo's don't have the resources or knowledge (or
the money for the initial hardware costs) to host their own web servers,
so they will still be looking into virtual hosting. And in this case it
would be useful to have some documentation about the different usage
scenarios for ldap authentication. I can at least write to the plone
docs list about it, in case anyone feels like writing something.

> But if you don't want to run your own server, the best option seems to
> be to send loads of beer and/or chocolate to Sam Stainsby, his project
> seems very promising :-)

+1
Maybe we should have a plone ngo's irc meeting about who has what kind
of resources for Sam's project? It sounds like it's in the interest of
many of us. We would be interested in helping out but for the moment
that would mean testing and documentation and not financial.

Sisi

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