This post by Daniel Berteaud on the devinfo mailing list may interest users.
As Daniel says it is still a "work in progress", & should only be deployed on "test" servers.
Hi everyone.
We (at Firewall Services) have recently worked on LDAP authentication
for SME 8.X (I'm talking about full LDAP authentication, where users are
directly managed in the LDAP database)
Most of this work was to re-use e-smith-base+ldap and e-smith-samba+ldap
changes, and push them in the current (CVS) version of e-smith-base,
e-smith-ldap and e-smith-samba.
A lot of fixes, and various enhancements have been made, most notably,
an ldap.init service has been added.
You can have more information on our wiki:
https://wikit.firewall-services.com/doku.php?id=full_ldap_testingHere, you'll find informations about all the changes needed in which
package, some explanation about the change. Everything is available as
patches, and you'll find instruction on how to install pre-compiled rpms
if you want to try this (see
https://wikit.firewall-services.com/doku.php?id=full_ldap_testing#downloads)
We've made this page so everyone can have a look on the project (I know
that contribs wiki would have been better, but I really prefer dokuwiki
over mediawiki
).
I know we'll have to open different bugs on bugzilla for all this stuff,
but with this kind of changes (which require a lot of modifications in
various places), I find it hard to work only with the bugtracker. This
page lets everyone see the project as a whole.
If we get some feedback from the community (positive, or negative, but
of course, we prefer positive ones
), and if it seems this project is
taking the good direction, we'll open bugs to track individual issues,
and discuss about more technical details of each required change.
Please, if you're interested in this, take a look at this page, and try
the modified rpms (on a test server of course, this is still work in
progress).
Regards, Daniel, on behalf of Firewall Services
--
Daniel Berteaud
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