[Silva-general] ldap + openid concurrently, SilvaForum

[Kit BLAKE]

On 5 Dec 2008, at 17:13, Marc Petitmermet wrote:

> 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?

Yes. However I highly recommend learning buildout and using it for  
testing. Once the learning curve is done, it makes checking out (pun  
intended) new software, and updating it, a breeze. Astonishingly easy.  
Even for techless dilettantes like, um, Torvald.

Kit


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