[TYPO3] Integrating login info using LDAP and Typo3

[Ricardo Scachetti Pereira]

    Dear Typo3 users,

    I wanted to integrate login and user information from many systems 
in my organization using Typo3 and LDAP and I was wondering whether you 
could give me some directions. Here are more details about our situation.

    We are setting up Typo3 to publish the main website of our 
organization and a couple of sub-websites. We are also providing a 
number of other web applications to our users, such as TWiki, GNU 
Mailman, Subversion, Bugzilla, Open Journal System, and some WebDAV 
directories.

    Each of these systems has its own registration mechanism and login 
database by default. It is becoming a problem to us to require our users 
to sign up on so many different systems. Most of these systems, however, 
can be configured to authenticate users via LDAP directory.

    I wanted to set up a LDAP directory, possibly using openLDAP, and 
set up Typo3 to let user register and update their profile information. 
I wanted to give users the possibility to change their passwords and 
profile information, preferably using the front-end interface.

    I've done some research and I'm about to try out two Typo3 
extensions: ldap_gua and eu_ldap. Do you have any feeling for which one 
may be more appropriate to our case?

    Most of the information on the mailing list is about getting Typo3 
to authenticate its FE users using a LDAP directory, but that's only 
part of my problem. I couldn't find much information about setting up 
Typo3 to manage a LDAP directory and let users update their own profiles.

    Any help is greatly appreciated.

    Regards,

Ricardo Pereira