[TYPO3-english] LDAP authorization for backend

[horace grant]

i got ig_ldap_sso_auth to work. backend login per LDAP works nicely now!

cheers, horace




On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Christian Kuhn <lolli at schwarzbu.ch> wrote:

> Hey,
>
>
> On 09/23/2011 12:36 PM, horace grant wrote:
>
>> what extensions are suited for this? i looked at eu_ldap, ldap_auth and
>> ldap_authorization. eu_ldap always seems to synchronize all data,
>> ldap_auth
>> seems to be very old and the manual isn't very detailed and
>> ldap_authorization seems to only support the frontend.
>>
>
>
> I don't know the other extensions, but about the triple of ldap_lib,
> ldap_server and ldap_auth:
>
> They are obviously unsupported, but should basically still work. I've used
> them for years for private systems, and applied some patches/hacks to make
> them work with rsaauth and fixed some details. So: If you know what you are
> doing it should be possible to get them up and running.
> I've reviewed them for my company some weeks ago again and started hacking
> on them. After a short while I decided that the coding does not apply to our
> in-house standard anymore and it is too much work to fix them without
> breaking changes.
> I've now started hacking on a new ldap auth extension, goal is a straight
> forward BE authentication extension that re-uses some ideas from the three
> extensions but with better code. I want to have the extension ready for
> deployment withing the next three (max. 4) weeks and could add it to forge
> if people are interested.
>
>
> Regards
> Christian
>
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