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My .02

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Wednesday, January 09 2002 @ 03:33 am EST

My two cents are that this would get some use, but how much use it would see is dependent upon the LDAP management and setup tools available in other products. At my job, I\'ll be putting in a MacOS X Server system this summer. I\'ve been told that it can export its user authentications through LDAP. We\'re already using IMAP on a FreeBSD server, too. We use IMAP authentication for several web apps.

My suggestion is to take the following steps:
1) Abstract the current authentication system out of the code base and put it in something like lib/auth/standalone.php.
2) Write the LDAP stuff and put it in lib/auth/ldap.php
3) If you want, write some IMAP authentication stuff and put it in lib/auth/imap.php
4) Make a variable in config.php that reads the correct authentication library. Each file has the same variable names and function names and the same output format, so it would be easy to interchange them.

I have seen this done successfully. I started down this path on a project that I ran a year and a half ago and this is how TWIG works. I know you hate TWIG, but this is one of its good points and it actually does work.

Anyway, if GeekLog had the above setup today, I\'d grab the IMAP authenticator in a heartbeat. Once the MacOS X Server controlled logins on our MacOS workstations, I\'d consider switching to LDAP. Since its not available today, I\'d probably wait until the MOSXS system is in place and then look into its LDAP tools. I\'d make up my mind mostly based on the feelings of my users and the ease of the LDAP system administration. I have a feeling that you\'ll see that a lot, too. LDAP is a great tool that most geeks have at least heard of. Many/most of us haven\'t started using it only due to the complexity of setup within the classic text-only environment of Linux and BSD.

Hope my babbling helps. :)

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