[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen and LDAP

[David Fiander]

I would definitely support a pluggable authentication system, since
different communities may use different authentication systems.

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 13:59, Galen Charlton <gmc at esilibrary.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> On 07/27/2011 12:27 PM, Dan Wells wrote:
>
>> There may be other cases where "Patch Available" would make sense, but at
>> least for this case, I think "Under Development" is our best bet (if such
>> a
>> category already exists).  The patch which is available is quite old, and
>> is
>> really more of a starting point than something which can simply be applied
>> and
>> run without some additional tinkering.
>>
>
> And mining the open-ils-dev archive more deeply, Dan's patch inspired Mike
> Rylander to do some brainstorming in late 2009 about adding a pluggable
> authentication system to Evergreen. [1]
>
> If folks are interesting in working on it, I'd love to see that discussion
> picked up again, as something like what Mike is proposing would mean much
> more than just LDAP support in core (though that would of course be a big
> win in and of itself).
>
> [1] http://list.georgialibraries.**org/pipermail/open-ils-dev/**
> 2009-December/005481.html<http://list.georgialibraries.org/pipermail/open-ils-dev/2009-December/005481.html>
>
> Regards,
>
> Galen
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