Getting the userid and password is good enough. Getting the user group info. from LDAP is nice since that can save some of the work of assigning users to groups manually. However, that may make the Continuum depends on LDAP too much: any changes to the user group have to go through LDAP. Therefore I prefer using LDAP only for userid/passowrd.
Thanks, Frank -----Original Message----- From: Emmanuel Venisse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 10/19/2005 8:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Suggestions on implemeting the Continuum User Authentication via LDAP With the actual code, you can't do it. Continuum code need a little refactoring for support other user management implementation - create a user management api project - create a user management store project that use only database for authentication/add/delete/search user - create a user management ldap project with ldap access and database access Which informations do you want to use from ldap? only user/password? Emmanuel Frank Zhao a écrit : > Since we need this feature pretty soon, I am planning to make a patch for the > LDAP feature in Continuum. Any suggestions/hints on how to design/implement > this feature will be highly appreciated. > > In addition, how long do you think it takes for the implementation? This > would be very helpful for me to evaluate the work. > > Thanks! > > Frank > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brett Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Mon 10/17/2005 9:35 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Continuum User Authentication via LDAP > > I would like to see that happen. Please file it as a feature request > and we will consider it for future versions. > > - Brett > > On 10/17/05, Frank Zhao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I am very glad to see the recent Continuum Beta 1 version having user >>management functions. It is very important to us. >> >>My question is will Continuum support LDAP for the user authentication? If >>not, is there a plan to do that in the near future? >> >>Thanks in advance, >> >>Frank >> >> > >
