Forum OpenACS Q&A: LDAP ported?

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1: LDAP ported?
Posted by Rafael Calvo on 07/24/02 12:54 AM
Has any one ported used the LDAP-authentication package? or
any other LDAP authentication?
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2: Response to LDAP ported? (response to 1)
Posted by Rafael Calvo on 07/24/02 01:00 AM
I am looking at how to integrate OACS to the University system. I
thought this might be interesting for others. One possibility is
password file based (see previous thread) another is WASM:
Web Authentication and Session Manager". I know nothing about
this but there is a bit more info in:
http://www.usyd.edu.au/is/comms/doc/wasm-howto.html
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3: Response to LDAP ported? (response to 1)
Posted by Carl Robert Blesius on 07/24/02 11:08 AM

We are also interested in the option of having external authentication sources for OpenACS.

Important is the following:

  1. Modularity (being able to plug in different sources of authentication)
  2. Having a fallback mechanism (e.g. if user password not in LDAP, use standard OACS authentication, if user password/key not in OACS ask users mother, etc.)

This is why it would be interesting to have a general pluggable authentication API for OACS... I have not looked at it yet but I think this is something that has been addressed by by the Open Knowledge Initiative (http://web.mit.edu/oki/ )