RE: [Mantisbt-dev] LDAP Authentication

[Robert F. <rf...@mo...>]

Hi Julian, 
Thanks, I'll read the guidelines sometime.  Answers to your questions
below...

Robert Foster
Mountain Visions P/L
Australia.
rf...@mo...
http://mountainvisions.com.au/

Supporter & Contributor - Computing in Silence

>1) would it be valuable to cache the connection, so that future calls
to 
>ldap_connect_bind() would only rebind, not reconnect?  Does that make 
>sense in this context?
>

Possibly, however, a better solution would probably be to retrieve and
cache all necessary information when the user authenticates.

>2) would it make sense for these API functions to take a user_id (for 
>consistency with every other API) and look up the username from that 
>themselves?  Since mantis always deals with the id, it seems like
you'll 
>always end up having to do the lookup yourself before calling the ldap 
>APIs.  But I'm not sure everywhere that these functions need to be 
>called from, so you'd have a better idea.

Yep, I'll get around to that next.

>
>thanks for your work,
No Problem :)