[dokuwiki] Re: ldap auth but with groups from users.auth.php?

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 21:23:35 -0500
Steven Danz <steven-danz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello
> 
> We have started using ldap to do authentication, however the corporate > LDAP 
> server doesn't support groups so everyone ends up in the default 
> group.  Since we can't convince the corporate LDAP group to include
> the groups property, I was wondering if it made sense to add a
> configuration option to the ldap auth to allow it to 'ignore',
> 'replace' or 'append' the groups results of an ldap search with the
> group values for the user from the users.auth.php file (if any)?  That
> way the wiki could use the LDAP service for user/password maintenance
> (the fewer passwords the better!) but allow flexibility in creating
> groups, especially for assigning ACL permissions.

In FS#193 was suggested to change the auth mechanism to Object Oriented code 
and let all auth mechanisms inherit from auth_plain. If someone wants to do 
this I'm open for it.

Andi

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