[Zope] [ ANN ] LDAPLoginAdapter 1.2 released

[Jens Vagelpohl]

LDAPLoginAdapter 1.2, a user folder replacement that authenticates against
an LDAP server, has been released.

You can view some of the documentation and download the software at
http://www.dataflake.org/software/ldaploginadapter.

A Tracker at that same address allows you to easily file bug reports or
feature requests for this product.

Improvements and bugfixes since release 1.2beta1 (the last time a news
release was posted) include:


    LDAPLoginAdapter 1.2

      Bugs fixed:

        * Added a missing comma in __ac_permissions__ that broke
          changing roles via the "Security" tab on the
          LDAPLoginAdapter...

        * Completely revamped the exception handling in authenticate
          so that there will always be a (hopefully) helpful output
          in the log

        * authenticate had an exeption handler that would try and use a
          variable left uninitialized when the exception was thrown.


    LDAPLoginAdapter 1.2beta3

      Bugs fixed:

        * The methods that manipulate the publicly available user object
          attributes now make sure to flush the cache of user objects
          and force all of them to be recreated, thereby making the
          changes "grab" immediately and not just whenever the user object
          expires all by itself and gets recreated.


    LDAPLoginAdapter 1.2beta2

      Features Added:

        * A new management tab called "LDAP Schema" allows the
          manager to enter or delete attributes that describe the
          LDAP schema used for the LDAP user records. This completely
          replaces the misleading "Allowable User Attributes" found
          on the Advanced tab which had been abused to find out more
          about the LDAP schema in use. All select lists that list
          LDAP attributes are now driven by the attributes that are
          shown on the LDAP Schema tab.

      Features deprecated:

        * The "Special Users" and "Special User Roles" feature has been
          deprecated. I considered it a kludge in cases where you cannot
          set your LDAP schema correctly. With the advent of the
          LDAPUserManager product it has become trivially easy to add
          users and groups. This is the much preferred way of conferring
          roles to users.

      Bugs fixed:

        * Mishandled the loop to delete the public attribute mappings
          in manage_deletePublicUserAttrs which caused index errors

        * Default handling of method calls through the web or from
          python was inconsistent in regards to what to return and
          what to expect. All method signatures that might expect
          REQUEST now set it to a default value of None and in the
          method body test to see if it is None. This improves the
          use of methods from python where no REQUEST is guaranteed.

        * Change capitalization of manage_AddPublicUserAttrs to bring
          it in line with the normally used capitalization scheme

        * Renamed "Contents" tab to "Custom Forms" to clear up the
          meaning of this tab