simplon.plone.ldap

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simplon.plone.ldap provides a user interface in a Plone 3 site to manage LDAP and Active Directory servers.

Project Description

**NOTE:** simplon.plone.ldap has been reborn as plone.app.ldap, and donated to the Plone Foundation. See the announcement on the mailing lists, simplon.plone.ldap builds on the functionality provided by "LDAPMultiPlugins":http://www.dataflake.org/software/ldapmultiplugins/, "LDAPUserFolder":http://www.dataflake.org/software/ldapuserfolder/ and "PloneLDAP":http://plone.org/products/ploneldap/. Active Directory Active Directory provides an LDAP interface to its data. Using this interface Plone can use both users and groups from an Active Directory system. Writing to Active Directory is not supported. With Active Directory you can use two different properties as login name: 'userPrincipalName' and 'sAMAccountName'. 'sAMAccountName' is the plain account name without any domain information and is only unique within a single domain. If your environment only uses a single AD domain this option is the best choice. For environments with multiple names the 'userPrincipalName' attribute can be used since this includes both account name and domain information. Since Plone does not support binary user ids it is not possible to use the 'objectGUID' attribute as user ids. Instead you can use either 'sAMAccountName' or 'userPrincipalName'. The same criteria for choosing a login name also apply to selecting the user id attribute. Standard LDAP LDAP directory servers are fully supported. LDAP users and groups are usable as standard Plone users and groups can be me managed normally. Creating and deleting users and groups is supported. Copyright and credits Copyright -- simplon.plone.ldap is Copyright 2007 by Simplon Credits -- Wichert Akkerman Funding -- "CentrePoint":http://centrepoint.org.uk/