Posts tagged 'ldap'

Plone/Zope: Using LDAPUserFolder with posixGroups

Due to various reasons, the Products.LDAPUserFolder package available for Plone and Zope doesn’t support POSIX groups.  The ‘official’ (ish) reason for this is because of the fact that these groups don’t store full distinguished names (DNs) for members.  It makes some degree of sense, because a user ID like ‘david.test’ isn’t strictly unique.  On the other hand, these types of groups are quite common in LDAP implementations; not supporting them without giving it at least half a shot to find the user seems a bit strange.

Here’s where a quick patch steps in. Thanks …

in Plone · Thu 03 June 2010

LDAP-Authenticated Server & Whoami Failures (etc)

I’m back again, after a bit of a unscheduled ‘break’ in my normal work life.  After a couple of days away for work on the Gold Coast, then the sad passing of my Grandfather and his memorial, then being sick over the last weekend from what I can only guess was a nasty 24-hour bug, I’m back.  And whilst a little worse for wear still today, it’s life pretty much as normal.

Today’s fun and games was on a server we use that uses LDAP authentication for its users.  Nothing special, except that today I started …

in Linux · Mon 28 September 2009