[Zope] PAM Authentication & RSA Authentication Manager

[Andrew Milton]

+-------[ Jens Vagelpohl ]----------------------
| 
| On Feb 1, 2005, at 20:42, Tom Trelvik wrote:
| 
| >Andrew Milton wrote:
| >>1st, you need PAM support on every platform.
| >
| >	True, but it's not like this is the only non-Zope dependency.  For 
| >example, to use LDAPUserFolder I need python-ldap.
| 
| Yes? That's available even on lesser operating systems from M$. Is PAM?
| 
| 
| >	Now this makes the most sense.  Unfortunately, it also doesn't apply 
| >to my situation, as I'm part of a larger organization, and want to use 
| >the preexisting centralized LDAP (which I of course only have read 
| >access to) to manage authentication so my users don't need a new set 
| >of usernames/passwords, but I'll be *managing* the users locally (Not 
| >sure yet exactly how that's going to work, still working through 
| >documentation and whatnot (but I certainly wouldn't mind any 
| >pointers)).
| 
| You can use the LDAPUserFolder in read-only mode so it does not try to 
| write back to the directory and store group/role information on the 
| LDAPUserFolder itself. That way the users log in with the same 
| credentials *and* you can manage the roles they get in the Zope context 
| locally. It's just a matter of configuration.

Ditto for exUserFolder d8)

-- 
Andrew Milton
akm at theinternet.com.au