[Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope3-checkins] SVN: ldapauth/trunk/ Correctedsometypos in the'ldapauth' module.

[Roger Ineichen]

Hi Derrick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: zope3-dev-bounces+dev=projekt01.ch at zope.org 
> [mailto:zope3-dev-bounces+dev=projekt01.ch at zope.org] On 
> Behalf Of Derrick Hudson
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 4:26 PM
> To: zope3-dev at zope.org
> Subject: [Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope3-checkins] SVN: 
> ldapauth/trunk/ Correctedsometypos in the'ldapauth' module.
> 
> On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 04:10:41AM +0100, Roger Ineichen wrote:
> | Aha,
> | 
> | > -----Original Message-----
> | > From: zope3-dev-bounces+dev=projekt01.ch at zope.org 
> | > [mailto:zope3-dev-bounces+dev=projekt01.ch at zope.org] On 
> | > Behalf Of Derrick Hudson
> | > Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 3:59 AM
> | > To: zope3-dev at zope.org
> | > Subject: [Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope3-checkins] SVN: 
> | > ldapauth/trunk/ Correctedsome typos in the'ldapauth' module.
> | > 
> | > On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 09:33:48PM -0500, Stephan Richter wrote:
> | > | On Friday 11 February 2005 21:02, Roger Ineichen wrote:
> | > | > Do you use it with the trunk or the 3.0 release?
> | > | 
> | > | It cannot possibly work with the release, because it is 
> | > written for the new 
> | > | plugauth, remember?
> | > 
> | > Hmm.  Well, it works, and it does use the 
> | > PluggableAuthenticationService.
> | > I guess the plugauth was included in the 3.0 release.
> | 
> | Ok, the ldapauth package was the work before the Isar sprint.
> | It works base on the 3.0 branch with Nicolas Evrard.
> 
> Yes, Nicolas was the other name I saw on the list discussing that
> project with you.  I don't know when the Isar sprint was, though.
> 
> | On the Isar sprint we developed another package called 
> | ldapadapter from scratch base on the new authentication package
> | with Florent form Nuxeo.
> 
> I thought ldapadapter was a general-purpose layer for using LDAP in
> Zope3, and this would imply that ldappas is a new-style authentication
> package that uses ldapadapter.  If that is the case, then it seems
> that ldapauth ought to die when 3.0 dies, or should be merged with
> ldappas.

Right, if nobody works on it it will die.

> We need a 3.1 release Soon to close the gap between the current
> release and the known future.  Sometimes it is hard to justify using
> the trunk, particularly when a stable release exists.  However it is
> hard to want to work on improving things that are already slated for
> removal/change and we can't stay in limbo forever.  A 3.1 release will
> solve all of these issues by providing a new stable release containing
> the post-3.0 redesigns.

I don't have the time right now for to work on a ldap implementation.
But the ladappas looks very how a authentication plugin should look like.

i don't know how 'efge' the commiter of ldappas is.
Perhaps you can contact him and ask if we should use his work as
a default ldap pas implementation.

If so, it whould be nice if somebody could take care to the 
package and provide updates if needed. The biggets problem is, 
that this package isn't in the trunk itself. The reason why is:
The ldapadapter and the ldappas packages has dependency to the 
external 'python-ldap' package whold break the trunk.

Regards
Roger Ineichen

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