[Zope] Dumb question: Can Zope be used as a LDAP server?

Dirk Datzert dirk.datzert@tks-rasselstein.thyssenkrupp.com
Sun, 08 Dec 2002 16:10:59 +0100


Stephan Richter schrieb:
> 
> On Sunday 08 December 2002 09:43, Luca Olivetti wrote:
> > Dirk Datzert wrote:
> > > Hi Luis,
> > >
> > > Zope is an application server, where you can run your own
> > > LDAP-administration software.
> > >
> > > But the LDAP-Server is a standalone server which is not zope !
> > >
> > > You can bind users in zope against users in LDAP (with LDAPUserFolder)
> > > but this did not mean that zope is a LDAP-Server.
> >
> > Yes, but imagine the opposite: that you have a contacts database in zope
> > and want it to be useable by, say, mozilla or any other mail client that
> > can query ldap servers for its address book.
> 
> Well, start an effort to write an LDAP server on top of Zope. LDAP is a
> complex protocol; I would be glad to see a Zope-based server. There is an
> LDAP server module for Twisted you might want to check out for a start.
> 

I would suggest: put the contacts database on a real LDAP-Server (e.g.
openldap - full functional and very well working LDAP-server)

Write on top of Zope your management tool for that contacts database.
There are some products to do this: LDAPUserFolder +
LDAPDirectoryManager

-> use the right tool for the right issue, don't reinvent the wheel !

Regards,
Dirk