Hi again,
as requested I am starting a new thread on the -devel list concerning the technical aspects of the new Web Environment we are working towards.
We have successfully set up an LDAP bind with phpBB and written a script that let's us import the existing data from the XOOPS site:
http://wiki.centos.org/WebsiteVer2/forums/newbb_to_phpbb
We are still in need of a LDAP management platform and I was wondering if we could use 389/CentOS Directory Server for that.
Best Regards Marcus
On 09/22/2009 02:15 PM, Marcus Moeller wrote:
We are still in need of a LDAP management platform and I was wondering if we could use 389/CentOS Directory Server for that.
Just my 2bits worth, I think we should split this effort of unified accounts away from website ver2 tasks and move it into a project for itself.
With unified accounts, the website would be only one portion of the 'consumer' of the user-accounts setup.
I dont care what tech is used, as long as : - its roburst - its secure - its easy to maintain - its managed by the infrastructure team - isn't tied down to a single point of failure - it works with all the apps on the platter now - and does not reduce the scope of adding more apps later by too much.
What else am I missing ?
-KB 'having a big bullet point day'
Hi all.
as requested I am starting a new thread on the -devel list concerning the technical aspects of the new Web Environment we are working towards.
We have successfully set up an LDAP bind with phpBB and written a script that let's us import the existing data from the XOOPS site:
Please also note that applications like phpBB are not capable of creating LDAP accounts on their own. So we are in need of a LDAP user creation frontend, too. I am not sure if 389 ships things like that. Otherwise we may have to code something on our own.
Best Regards Marcus Moeller
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Marcus Moeller mail@marcus-moeller.de wrote:
Please also note that applications like phpBB are not capable of creating LDAP accounts on their own. So we are in need of a LDAP user creation frontend, too. I am not sure if 389 ships things like that.
Ummm. Yes, it does ship a console for management, but you don't want to put that "on the web".
Otherwise we may have to code something on our own.
Looks like it.
Cheers,
Ralph
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
On 09/23/2009 03:32 PM, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Otherwise we may have to code something on our own.
Looks like it.
I am not averse to doing that - its not very complex to writeup a 'My Account' web-interface as long as the under laying system is robust.
It is a simple two tasks interface:
Write the user data into LDAP, then wait for confirmation and set "AccountActive= Yes" (or whatever attribute you want to have). Then have a cronjob weeding out any inactive accounts after a week or so ...
Ralph
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