On 01/28/2011 02:18 PM, Marcus Moeller wrote: > Dear Andrea (and the other new faces showing up :)). > >>> On 01/28/2011 11:29 AM, Athmane Madjoudj wrote: >>>> >>>> Ok, then we need to setup a CentOS specific repo for Drupal with some >>>> modules (that depend on the needs of CentOS webmasters) and phpBB, to >>>> make update easier. >>> >>> Whats wrong with typo3 ? >>> >>> Is the decision here for Drupal being made on the basis of 'we know >>> drupal' or is it a case of 'drupal is the best option'. I dont see >>> arguments being made either way. >> >> for me it is a case of 'we know drupal'. I've been using it for some time now >> plus I'm working on another drupal istance for the Fedora insight team. (and >> we are making up some nice docs about the installation process and the modules >> needed etc.) > > First thanks for beeing interested in the WebsiteV2 project. I would > like to invite you to take a look at the following wiki pages: > > http://wiki.centos.org/WebsiteVer2/forums > http://wiki.centos.org/WebsiteVer2/UnifyAuthentication > > This is what we have already done: > > http://wiki.centos.org/WebsiteVer2/forums/newbb_to_phpbb > > Now we are in need of a little user management frontend to let ppl > register their accounts to the LDAP servers. > > This would also be possible with existing solutions, e.g. with a CMS > that is capable of LDAP user management. > > Depending of your skills, please either evaluate LDAP capabilities of > common CMS systems or help us coding a user creation frontend. > IMHO, LDAP authentication is better in case when ifra-team needs to deploy a new web app (eg: Bugzilla, Asterisk (VoIP) etc...). Most of modern web app are compatible with LDAP auth directly or through an extensions. Drupal already has LDAP integration modules [1] for LDAP authentication and groups, also there is other module [2] for user registration process that create the same user in LDAP servers and Drupal users tables. I've never deployed a such solution however I'll try this scenarios in a CentOS VM, It'll take some time because I'm not very familiar with LDAP servers (both OpenLDAP and 389/Fedora Directory Server) [1] http://drupal.org/project/ldap_integration [2] http://drupal.org/project/ldap_provisioning Regards. -- Athmane Madjoudj