FLOSS support [was: Authenticate to ldap using Kerberos]

["Dieter Kluenter" <dieter@dkluenter.de>]

Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> writes:

> masarati@aero.polimi.it wrote:

[...]
>> Quanah, I know that in the past you, Howard and others have contributed
>> pieces of software to other LDAP-enabled software to enable SASL auth.
>>
>> I had myself some bad experience in contributing things to software
>> maintainers that did not even understand the need or the importance of
>> what I was trying to contribute, but that's another story.
>>
>> Maybe we could try, as the OpenLDAP project rather than as individuals, to
>> promote and support better LDAP (not just OpenLDAP) integration in other
>> generally useful FLOSS that can interact with OpenLDAP.
>
> I'm ok with spending time on this, but I don't use evolution and have
> no direct need to get it working. How do we decide which "generally
> useful FLOSS" should get our attention?

I have a large list :-) just a few examples:

- postfix, enable compare
- (X)Emacs, ldapv3
- php-ldap, controls, strong binds
- Net::LDAPapi, documentation

-Dieter

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