[Zope] zldap connections

[Jens Vagelpohl]

The ZLDAP product has not seen any development in a few years.

jens


On Wednesday, Aug 20, 2003, at 16:00 US/Eastern, Andrew Altepeter wrote:

> I'm working on an alumni directory for the college, which uses openldap
> as the directory service.  We are using acl's to restrict which
> attributes user have access to based on their context (staff, student,
> alumni, guest, etc).
>
> This means that the alumni directory needs to bind to ldap as each 
> user.
>
> We want to use zldap, but the Ldap Connection object creates a
> connection, bound as one user.  Is it possible to have 'dynamic' ldap
> connections (and use the rest of the zldap package), ones where you can
> re-bind as another user?
>
> Or is there some other (better) way to do this?
>
> I've seen other products out there which allow this by using an ldap
> user folder, however we have a custom user folder that integrates with
> our institutions single sign-on server, so that won't work (and we have
> a different method of retrieving a users password).
>
> Any help would be great!
> Thanks!
> Andy Altepeter
> Web Developer
> Bethel College & Seminary
>
>
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