On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Brian Candler <[email protected]> wrote: >> What feature of CouchDB would you like a student to work on >> during the summer? > > I have a suggestion: build an LDAP server into CouchDB. Bind and read-only > access to documents would be a good start. Add/modify/delete on documents, > and search on views, would be even better. > > Working on this would be an opportunity for someone to get to grips with the > OTP framework (gen_server, inet, asn1) whilst also interfacing with CouchDB > at the Erlang level. >
Good reminder. When authentication was introduced we basically just put external authentication mechanisms on a back burner until a future date. LDAP is a great idea, but I'd make the slight amendment to include making a pluggable interface and then using LDAP as a reference implementation. HTH, Paul Davis > And before someone says "whoa!! bad idea!" - it was just a thought :-) > > Regards, > > Brian. >
