[opencms-dev] Large number of users

[M Butcher]

This is another thing I was looking at very seriously. The "quick fix"
is to write some scripts to dump the LDAP users into OpenCMS, and then
(prob. via the system cron) update the directory periodically. It's not
ideal, though.

I worked for a while on adding LDAP support, but at the time I heard
that LDAP was about to be added to CVS for the next release. Now,
though, it sounds like that is not the case. However, the next major
version is supposed to replace the current object structure with one
that is more conducive to external authentication. The main problem I
had was breaking apart the authentication piece and the rest of the DB
structure.

Olli, thanks for the info -- you've helped me as well as Nathan.

Matt

On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 09:45, Nathan Sweaney wrote:
> Thanks for the help.  I also would love to see some sort of open source
> LDAP project started.
> 
> Nathan
> 
> 
> >>> olli_aro at yahoo.co.uk 10/17/03 09:50AM >>>
> >
> > Olli, that sounds very much like what I'd like to do.  Being a
> > university setting, our departments suggest very obvious breaks for
> > different projects.  I'm still very new to OpenCMS, but what I'm
> > understanding is that everyone in the department could be editors,
> but
> > there'd need to be one from each department that was a project
> manager
> > to actually publish content.  Is that correct?
> >
> 
> Yes, what you want to do is to have a separate project for every
> department,
> and sign every project with its' own editor group and project manager
> group.
> We have done couple of small school implementations as well and this
> is
> exactly how we have set them up.
> 
> > Also, if you have that many users, have you found a way to use an
> > existing user tree, or did you create them all specifically for
> > OpenCMS?
> >
> 
> We currently use OpenCms user management for this. However I also have
> more
> and more clients asking after LDAP integration, so would be useful if
> the
> opencms community could kick off a project on this (especially since I
> read
> from this list couple of weeks ago that Alkacon do have LDAP connector
> for
> OpenCms, but they are likely not going to release it as open
> source)...
> 
> Olli
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