2009-05-08_10:16:51-0400 jonathan <jengb...@ryerson.ca>: > I've got Roller (4.0) authenticating to our ldap database, with a mixed > ldap/rollerdb config. I've received a request to password protect a > specific blog, allowing all ldap users to access it, though I don't want > to have to create a local roller account for these people (there are > many, many thousands of ldap accounts). Is there a way to do this? I > can easily allow access to a blog for all authenticated users (who have > the "register" role), but users who aren't in the database can't log in > at all without a local account. Having some sort of "guest" privilege > assigned to ldap-authenticated but non-rollerdb users would be ideal, > but I'm not sure it's possible (well... possible without a major > overhaus of our authentication system).
Don't know if this suits you, but there are some sample groovy scripts in the Roller distribution you might use to script adding the thousands of ldap users. -- Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso - Mount Holyoke College officials will *NEVER* ask for your password.
