RE: [Phpgroupware-users] Understanding LDAP Authentication

[Philip Glaser]

Hi Des,

Thanks, this is helpful, as it conforms that, one way or another, making
phpgroupware work with e-smith's ldap schema is going to be a chore.

Thanks!

--Phil


>-----Original Message-----
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>Behalf Of Des Dougan
>Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 1:36 AM
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>Subject: Re: [Phpgroupware-users] Understanding LDAP Authentication
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>Philip,
>
>Hsing-Foo suggested I might be of help, although he kindly overstates my
>abilities in fully understanding phpGW and LDAP.
>
>At 09:49 8/12/2002, you wrote:
>>That
>>is, it appears that it is possible for phpGroupWare to use LDAP as a
>>user-data repository, but that it uses its own
>phpGroupWare-specific schema.
>
>This is certainly true. I've downloaded a neat little utility called
>ldapbrowser which displays the entries in the LDAP database - clearly the
>demo users have different schema to users created via the e-smith dialogs.
>
>>I'm guessing that in order to use e-smith's userids and accounts I would
>>need to use PAM, but according to the phpGroupWare configuration
>tool PAM is
>>"not ready."
>
>Now I'm out of my depth. I've been trying to get my anglemail application
>configured over this weekend, so haven't spent much time looking at LDAP,
>but I just had a look at the LDAP setup (the "modifying an existing...."
>section. I noticed that it's not displaying all the users in my database -
>it displays those I set up via phpGW (i.e. the admin user and the three
>demo users, as well as one user (of 4) from the e-smith user accounts, so
>there's obviously still something not quite right with the LDAP
>implementation, which is certainly working better than in the .000 release.
>
>Perhaps Lars Kneschke could comment?
>
>
>
>
>Des
>
>
>
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