[Zope-PTK] LDAP and PTK - Help!

[Phillip J. Eby]

We have an LDAP UserSource for LoginManager which we are using internally.
We have not released it, since it is rather specific to our directory
schema.  But, you can create your own using the GenericUserSource and the
ZLDAPMethods/ZLDAP Connection products.  The tricky bit is probably
property sheets, which are less than complete at the moment.  :(

At 04:03 PM 3/23/00 +0100, Stian G. Danenbarger wrote:
>We have our 70 or so users in the Netscape Directory Server (LDAP), and
>use it mainly for authentication on our web intranet. As part of a
>redesign project for this intranet we've decided to try and build a Zope
>PTK-based Portal site to replace our current Netscape based web
>publishing system, and I'm working on this right now.
>
>Aside from the fact that the PTK is still unfinished (but already
>looking great), I'm mostly concerned with authentication against our
>LDAP server. We really don't want to replicate our user base into a User
>Folder, as we're letting each user maintain their own data, including
>passwords, and this keeps things simple and consistent. 
>
>What is required to do this? Could I use LoginManager and an LDAP
>variant of SQLMember here (perhaps adapted from the UserLDAP product),
>or is LM simply too unfinished to base this effort on (my initial
>impression)?
>
>We've successfully used the LDAPAdapter Product for authentication in
>non-PTK Zope folders (but not UserLDAP, yet...). Both of the Zope LDAP
>authentication products inherit from BasicUser and BasicFolder, so
>perhaps I could re-use most of the code here, and change them to inherit
>from MemberBase and MemberFolderBase instead?