[NGO] ldap vs generic plone authentication

[Nate Aune]

Hi Sisi,

We are building a Plone-based intranet solution for a customer, and  
one of the requirements was LDAP authentication. They are hosting  
both the LDAP server and Plone server on the same LAN, and we have  
not experienced any significant latency issues with this setup.

However, when we test the login using a local development machine  
which is connecting to their remote LDAP server over a VPN, the login  
procedure is noticeably slower. I think that once you are  
authenticated, then the site responds at favorable speeds. Rocky -  
can you confirm this?

Nate

On Sep 25, 2006, at 11:29 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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