Tom, How long did it take?
cheers </jima> > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Wang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 9:47 AM > To: Slide Users Mailing List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Authorization through LDAP > > > Jim, > > We did it in our web reporting product. We tested against Sun's iPlanet > LDAP server. We had to modify Slide's source code for performance reason. > Also, we didn't use Slide's user/group idea (they're flexible but > we wanted > something simpler). Instead we wrote our own user and ACL objects. Our > server authenticates users against LDAP server and then creates a "User" > object, which is then wrapped into Slide's CredentialsToken > object. We also > had to modify the security helpers to make it work. But overall Slide has > made huge contributions to our project (my hat off to all developers!) and > the integration with LDAP was fairly reasonable to deal with. > > Hope this helps. > > Tom Wang > Panscopic Corporation > Web Reporting, Just Add Data > http://www.panscopic.com/ > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jim Alateras [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 7:31 PM > > To: Slide Users Mailing List > > Subject: Authorization through LDAP > > > > > > We are trying to integrate Slide with LDAP and have so far > managed to get > > the authentication working through LDAP but we still need to work on > > authorization. I have the following questions > > > > 1. The documentation indicates that we can federate our > > repository across a > > number of different stores. Has anyone tried this? > > > > 2. If 1 works is it possible to split the /users section in to an > > LDAP store > > and keep the rest in a JDBC store? I am assuming that an LDAP > > store does not > > currently exist and I would have to create one? I am also > assuming that I > > would need to store serialized Java objects (SubjectNodes) in > > LDAP, is this > > correct? > > > > 3. If the /users are stored in LDAP could I have actions and permissions > > still stored in the JDBC store. > > > > 4. If I develop an LDAPStore do I need to modify anything else > to get LDAP > > authorization going? > > > > > > cheers > > </jima> > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
