[opencms-dev] Large number of users

[Marcus Redeker]

All,

I posted a few days ago that I started to work on LDAP support. I have
the main parts in place and now it is just a question of implementing
all the needed methods. Right now it works for me to check the userid
and password against LDAP but the user still has to exist in the OpenCMS
database. If you want all OpenCMS related user and group information in
LDAP you need to implement an own LDAP schema. This is something I am
currently working on too. 

I will extract all the files I changed and which I added and try to post
them in the list over the weekend. Right now I used the in place concept
of the ResourceBroker and my LDAP ResourceBroker is a kinf of proxy
between the normally configured database resourcebroker. So everything
which is not implemented in the LDAP resourcebroker is just called on
the database resourcebroker.

If in a newer version of OpenCMS these concepts would be changed my
stuff would be obsolete. I was looking for a comment from Alkacon on
this matter and when a new OpenCMS would be comming out. But nothing yet
except what we all know that Alkacon has LDAP support for OpenCMS which
is not OpenSource.

--Marcus



> -----Original Message-----
> From: opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org 
> [mailto:opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org] On Behalf Of M Butcher
> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 8:25 PM
> To: opencms-dev at opencms.org
> Subject: RE: [opencms-dev] Large number of users
> 
> 
> 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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