[geeklog-devtalk] Re: ldap solution

[steVe]

so spake geeklog-devel-request at lists.geeklog.net [2004.04.02 @ 12:03]:

> Tony,

> 

> >Our auth system works the same way that Passport, Project Liberty, etc 

> >does and the only way I could get this to work was to remove all the 

> >functions in public_html/users.php (except for the profile function) and 

> >put them in lib-acccount.php.  In this manner I now have access to teh 

> >fucntions I need access to without compromising the way users.php 

> >expects to work.

> 

> Any chance this could be turned into a generalized solution to allow all

> sorts of "external" authentication schemes?

> 

> For example, here's someone looking for an LDAP solution:

> <http://www.geeklog.net/forum/viewtopic.php?forum=8&showtopic=32761>

> 

> bye, Dirk


although completely possible to make an auth-ldap.class.php interface
for ldapped networks, it would seem more useful for said networks to
simply use apache's mod_ldap or similar. in other words, .htaccess 
rather than db lookups and php interpreted code.  especially since most
ldapped networks are rather large, it seems overkill to write php code
to do what apache et al can do already.

just a thought.
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