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

[Sebastian Stark]

On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 03:43:38PM +0100, 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.

In my opinion it would make a lot more sense if data are kept in a
dedicated LDAP Server and Zope uses LDAP to query this server.

Besides that: OpenLDAP can use different backends to store data. But I
don't know how much effort it would be to make it use Zope databases.

Implementing the LDAP protocol itself within Zope seems a bit overkill
for me.

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