<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 20/01/2006, at 6:06 AM, Mike Lee wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Is there a way to authenticate opencms users via an LDAP or preferably Kerberos/Active Directory?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>My campus uses Active Directory for most authentication purposes and having the ability for OpenCMS to do this would be great.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I saw some posts regarding the initial brainstorms of this back in 2003, but from what I have found, nothing has transpired.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Any news would be greatly appreciated.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Thanks in advance.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>There's a commercial plugin available from Alkacon as part of their OCEE package.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>We tried it out, had to do some munging of LDAP data to get it to work with Open Directory, but it looked like it would work with Active Directory out of the box. I was impressed that Alkacon then contacted me later saying they'd updated it to work with the posixGroup membership method that Open Directory uses.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I've put my purchase order in for it, and will be deploying it this year after it arrives.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>