[Zope] Re: Zope LDAP connection

[Florent Guillaume]

Ricardo Alves wrote:
> Einar Næss Jensen wrote:
> 
>> On 12/30/05, Ricardo Alves 
>> <lafere-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Is there any product that features LDAP connections in Zope. Just like
>>> ZMySQLDA for MySQL databases (not a user folder).
>>>
>>> In a fast search, I found ZopeLDAP, but it was last released in 2000. Is
>>> there someone working on ldap+zope "low level" stuff?
>>
>>
>>
>> What exactly are your needs? How low do you need it to be?
>> If you just need to query an ldap base this is very easy to achieve
>> via external methods and python-ldap. May also be used to alter the
>> contents of an ldap base.
> 
> 
> 
>>
>> However, http://www.dataflake.org/software/ldapuserfolder may also be
>> used to alter the ldap database (at least I think so. Never tried)
> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I need it to an archetypes ldap storage. CMFMember as an implementation 
> (don't know about any other) but it uses LDAPUserFolder, and I think the 
> storage should be more generic then that, i.e. should handle all kind of 
> content, not only members.
> 
> That's why, although I admit this storage can be the base for this work 
> (need a deeper look at it), I was asking if there are some working 
> "LDAPConnnection" product...

CPSDirectory has had an LDAPBackingDirectory that uses LDAP as a storage for 
quite a while. It's not plone compatible though, it uses an entirely 
different framework.

Florent

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