[Silva-general] ldap + openid concurrently, SilvaForum

[Marc Petitmermet]

On 05. Dez 2008, at 05. Dez 2008|16:27 Uhr, Sylvain Viollon wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 14:39:14 +0100
> Marc Petitmermet <petitmermet at mat.ethz.ch> wrote:
>
>> dear all
>>
>
>  Hello,
>
>> i'm working on a project site where users outside of the eth should
>> have access as well. these are too many users for creating guest
>> accounts for each one. so we'd like to use openid for them. is it
>> possible to use our local ldap and openid concurrently for
>> authentication?
>>
>
>   Well, if you don't use groups, yes, since for the moment,
> silva.pas.base does not support groups.

i guess that we can live without groups for now, although it is very  
convenient feature to have.

>   You can install LDAPUserFolder, and LDAPMultiPlugins from the same
> author,

LDAPMultiPlugins is compatible with SilvaExtETHLDAP?

> after having installed the openid support, go in your
> PAS acl_users, and create an LDAP Multi Plugin, configure it.
>
>   That's done.
>
>   If you use buildout, you can just simply add:
>
>   eggs +=
>       Products.LDAPMultiPlugins
>
>   To install both of those products.

and how does one install all these silva.* products without buildout?  
svn checkout?

>> we plan to use SilvaForum and SilvaFind as well. the idea is that
>> people upload their pdf documents and then discuss them using
>> SilvaForum. are there any plans to have a file upload feature in
>> SilvaForum? if not i probably use my file upload form to
>> automatically create a forum topic based on the files name or id.
>
>   I am going to let Kit reply to that, I don't really known, but this
> might be a nice feature.

yep.

thanks for your answer.

regards,
marc