Re: FLOSS support [was: Authenticate to ldap using Kerberos]

[Dan White <dwhite@olp.net>]

On 10/09/10 09:07 +0200, Dieter Kluenter wrote:
> 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

FreeRADIUS is a big one for me. No SASL support in its LDAP module.

An Apache authentication module would be nice too. I hacked something
together and submitted a SASL enabled LDAP module a couple of years back
to an Apache list, but didn't get any responses.

--
Dan White