[Zope] LDAPAdapter product available for gamma testing

Dr. Ross Lazarus rossl@med.usyd.edu.au
Wed, 15 Sep 1999 16:41:15 +1000


If you have a working ldapmodule and a working ldap server, you might be
interested/willing to test a new zope product called LDAPAdapter
available at http://www.zope.org:18200/Members/rossl/LDAPAdapter 
which essentially acts like Michel Pelletier's IMAPAdapter - except it
authenticates from an LDAP server (doh!). 

More usefully, it grabs the cn's of the groups the user happens to be in
making them available as the user's roles (plus, LDAP of course) - this
potentially allows you to manage zope roles (and thus access to zope
objects) through your ldap groups. Seemed like a good idea to me anyway. 


It's a fairly clumsy hack derived from IMAPAdapter and has been only
lightly tested.

Please report bugs or success to rossl@med.usyd.edu.au