-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Julien, On May 9, 2007, at 9:40 AM, Julien Chevalier wrote:
I'm now interested in pluging the server to an existing ldap directory in order to authenticate the users. According to the wiki, OpenDirectoryService is the thing I should use. Is this DirectoryService somehow crossplatform ? How can it be configured to connect to the existing ldap directory, have you any doc about that ?
Unfortunately it is not cross platform, it uses the Directory Services/Open Directory API provided by Apple. A pure LDAP DirectoryService is on my todo list (using ldaptor[0]) But there are design issues blocking that work and I don't have the time to sort it all out right now. I'm sorry that we don't just have something ready for you. It should be possible to use python-ldap[1] without any design changes to the twistedcaldav.directory APIs however python-ldap is not an asynchronous API so it's performance in our twisted server may be suboptimal and require the use of a caching mechanism similar to OpenDirectoryService's. Footnotes: [0] http://www.inoi.fi/open/trac/ldaptor/ [1] http://python-ldap.sourceforge.net/ - -David P.S. If anyone feels incredibly motivated to pursue any course of action along the lines of implementing some sort of LDAP Directory Service I'm sure it would be welcome. "Usually the protocol is this: I appoint someone for a task, which they are not qualified to do. Then, they have to fight a bear if they don't want to do it." -- Glyph Lefkowitz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFGQgQOrsrO6aeULcgRAqDHAJwO+gSuKWEuQK8IuWkVtbpoUVpJMACfbPVo CkYwpwdkePBBqqVitXmyRz8= =ZeGO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----