On 04/12/2011 10:09 PM, Joel Schuster wrote:
> I'd love to be able to do that kind of work...just not on my current
> schedule. However, I may be able to enlist somebody to do some.
>
> My real problem is that there don't seem to be good docs on *how* to do
> this. This is a new world to me and my team so the learning curve is steep.
>
> It's a shame that if it's been done so many times before that someone
> wouldn't have given back to the OSS community.

Indeed.

Can someone step up and offer to help?

>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
>> Behalf Of Sergiu Dumitriu
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 1:52 PM
>> To: XWiki Users
>> Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] LDAP&  Registration
>>
>> On 04/12/2011 08:56 PM, Joel Schuster wrote:
>>> That is correct. I use the same LDAP structure to manage groups/users
>>> in other applications. I'd like one point of entry for registering,
>>> managing users.
>>
>> This is not currently supported, but patches are welcome.
>>
>>> As a side note, there doesn't seem to be a place for administration
>>> approval of users as they register. That would be nice too.
>>
>> This has been done many times in individual deployments, but not as an
>> official feature. Maybe it's something that should be done for 3.2.
>>
>> It should be simple to code it, it was suggested already several times on
> the
>> mailing list. The basics are:
>>
>> - edit the validation mail so that it doesn't include the activation link,
> but
>> instead says that "wait for your account to be validated"
>> - write an administrative page that lists inactive users with links to
> activate
>> them, then uses $xwiki.sendConfirmationEmail to notify users of their
>> account validation
>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> - Joel
>>>
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
>>>> Behalf Of Kevin P. Foote
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 11:21 AM
>>>> To: XWiki Users
>>>> Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] LDAP&   Registration
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ->
>>>> ->
>>>> ->   When registering, is there a plugin that will updated LDAP with
>>>> ->  the  new user? Likewise, change LDAP for group membership?
>>>>
>>>> You would like xwiki to write to your LDAP creating a new user?
>>>>
>>>> Basically you want xwiki to update your LDAP correct?


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