Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: LDAP authentication

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14: Re: LDAP authentication (response to 13)
Posted by Oscar Bonilla on
Have you run this nsldap code in production?

Yes, it's been running on production machines since january 9 2002.

Is it thread-safe, robust, production-quality?

It is thread safe, robust and production-quality. The only weird thing is that it uses pools (like the db module) and thus it can't bind dynamically as a specific user. This could be a problem if people want to use ldap binding as an authentication method (as opposed to using a priviledged account on the LDAP and checking the users's password).

I have some ideas for implementing the ldap bind call as a user api, but haven't had time to implement it. If there's interest I could probably do it in a couple of days (but I can't start working on it for at least a couple of weeks since I'm in the process of relocating)...

Regards,

-Oscar