I would definitely support a pluggable authentication system, since different communities may use different authentication systems.
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 13:59, Galen Charlton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > > On 07/27/2011 12:27 PM, Dan Wells wrote: > >> There may be other cases where "Patch Available" would make sense, but at >> least for this case, I think "Under Development" is our best bet (if such >> a >> category already exists). The patch which is available is quite old, and >> is >> really more of a starting point than something which can simply be applied >> and >> run without some additional tinkering. >> > > And mining the open-ils-dev archive more deeply, Dan's patch inspired Mike > Rylander to do some brainstorming in late 2009 about adding a pluggable > authentication system to Evergreen. [1] > > If folks are interesting in working on it, I'd love to see that discussion > picked up again, as something like what Mike is proposing would mean much > more than just LDAP support in core (though that would of course be a big > win in and of itself). > > [1] http://list.georgialibraries.**org/pipermail/open-ils-dev/** > 2009-December/005481.html<http://list.georgialibraries.org/pipermail/open-ils-dev/2009-December/005481.html> > > Regards, > > Galen > -- > Galen Charlton > Director of Support and Implementation > > Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source > email: [email protected] > direct: +1 770-709-5581 > cell: +1 404-984-4366 > skype: gmcharlt > web: http://www.esilibrary.com/ > Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org & > http://evergreen-ils.org >
