[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen and LDAP

[Dan Wells]

Hello Lori,

I have moved the technical aspects of this discussion over to the Dev list.  I fully expect we will be able to make this happen for 2.2.  If you are not on the Dev list, you can follow the discussion here:

http://list.georgialibraries.org/pipermail/open-ils-dev/2011-July/007411.html

Thanks for pushing this forward!

Dan

>>> On 7/27/2011 at 5:12 PM, Lori Bowen Ayre <lori.ayre at galecia.com> wrote:
> I support this idea as well.   How could we move the idea forward enough
> that I could shop the project around for other developers to help us with
> it?
> 
> Lori
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:57 AM, David Fiander <david at fiander.info> wrote:
> 
>> 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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>>
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