This would actually be pretty cool achieving perhaps a better integration with what Turbine already has, ie another adapter but this time jdbc-ldap.
I looked at the open source version but by the looks of things it's in an infant stage. /Colin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Weaver, Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Turbine Users List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 3:33 PM Subject: RE: LDAP authentication - LDAPUserManager.java > Novell has an LDAP JDBC Driver. > > http://developer.novell.com/ndk/ldapjdbc.htm > > It appears it will work with any LDAP v2 or v3 compliant directory. > However, it requires a log in to download it. Still, it is probably a good > place to start. > > There is also a project at sourceforge.net that started up to produce an > open source LDAP/JDBC driver. > http://sourceforge.net/projects/jdbc-ldap/ > > > hth, > Scott > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: David Rideau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 5:04 AM > > To: Turbine Users List > > Subject: Re: LDAP authentication - LDAPUserManager.java > > > > > > Colin Chalmers wrote: > > > > >The question I think has to asked, what do we want to > > achieve here? Pure > > >authentication in Ldap and the rest (of the turbine roles > > etc) in the DB? Or > > >replicate what we have now working in a DB in Ldap? Or....? > > > > > >If it's the first then the present code almost achieves > > this, if it's the > > >latter then there's more work required. And how does this > > fit in with the > > >security in V3? > > > > > Perhaps what I'll say is totally nonsense. > > In the present version of LDAP user management, java classes are > > differenciated at the top level. > > There are > > - classes for DB user management > > (org.apache.turbine.services.security.db.* + > > org.apache.turbine.om.security.* ) > > - classes for LDAP user management > > (org.apache.turbine.services.security.ldap.*) > > And there is a lot of work to develop all functionalities for > > two solutions. > > > > Is it possible to implement LDAP connection at the low level, as a > > particular DB Driver with, perhaps, some adaptations ? > > Could we replace the description of the database schema by > > description > > of the LDAP schema and then transparently store and retrieve data ? > > Is this solution more compliant with the new V3 security scheme ? > > Do you think it is a hard development ? > > > > e-salutations > > > > David > > > > > > > > > -- > > - - - - - - - - - - - > > D a v i d R I D E A U > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > C. I. C. G. - V a l e n c e > > Centre Scientifique J.Fourier > > 38 , rue B. de Laffemas > > 2 6 0 0 0 V a l e n c e > > Tel. : 04 . 75 . 82 . 11 . 22 > > Fax. : 04 . 75 . 56 . 16 . 20 > > 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]>
