Re: [Exist-development] LDAP integration

[Casey J. <cas...@jo...>]

Kasper,

Thanks so much. I ran into these problems a while ago and didn't have time
to look into it. I'll probably attempt to get LDAP working agian with your
fixes in the next few months. I will let you know how it goes.

Cheers,

Casey

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Kasper Laudrup <kl...@vi...> wrote:

> Hi fellow eXist developers and users.
>
> In my opinion, the LDAP integration in eXist, at least in the stable
> version, has had quite a few issues. Most important for us, it didn't
> support membership of more than one group.
>
> I have rewritten the LDAP module and attached it to this post in hope that
> some one else might find it useful.
>
> The major changes are:
>
> - Support for multigroup membership with the memberUid LDAP property for
> the posixGroup object.
> - Removal of broken caching functionality which caused exist to use
> possibly outdated information when authenticating users.
> - Support for creating users through the eXist client interface.
>
> We have been using this in our production environment for a while and it
> seems to be working fine, at least better than what was in eXist before.
> Note that we do not use the eXist client interface for managing users, so
> that has not been thoroughly tested.
>
> I am, of course, willing to provide help with using this module and or
> fixing bugs. If someone thinks they might want to use it, I might even
> document it. :-)
>
> Best regards,
>
> Kasper Laudrup
>
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>
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