[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Active Directory

2012-05-16 Thread Tim Spindler
We have a question if a library could connect to active directory for authentication. Is this possible and has someone done this? We are of course in consortium environment so it would only be one library among 150 if it was even possible. -- Tim Spindler Manager of Library Applications

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Active Directory

2012-05-16 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Tim, You can generally communicate with Active Directory via the LDAP protocol. If that is the case for your installation, there is a feature in 2.2 which allows for basic authentication using LDAP user bind. To answer your listed concern, it is possible to limit this feature to a