LDAP

At work I've got LDAP (Active Directory) integration working just fine. However, I also wanted to pull profile information (Job Title, Department, Phone Number, etc.) out of Active Directory so there's a central repository for that type of information.

I'm looking for someone to provide some quick assistance with our Drupal/LDAP configuration. Please contact me regarding rates/availability. Thanks!

Attendees:

• trevor tunnacliffe - devlin ebusiness architects
• robert parizek - redoing vanillabeansolutions.com in drupal
• christian nally - instillananarchy.com
• colin chudyk - 3ring.com
• richard eriksson - justagwailo.com
• scott hadfield - converting www.cs.sfu.ca
• james clendenan - queens engineering society engsoc.queensu.ca, nice
  use of LDAP for single signon which was timely given the Identity Open Space Vancouver that took place all day yesterday and all day today
• dale mcgladdery - www.group42.ca

Colin presented on the category module. I showed off support.activestate.com in Jeff G of ActiveState's absence (he was sick) and we talked alot about CCK and Views (I showed how we used it on Cosmic Cubes.com and Colin showed his postal code matcher).

There are several discussions about integration of Drupal, Moodle, Elgg, aTutor and so on.

The questions:
- Is there a common user database?
- Which software is integrated in which (Drupal in Moddle or Moodle in Drupal)?
- Is this a real integration or only a synchronisation of user accounts?
- Which version works which version?

The current solutions are very version specific and specialized. A huge disadvantage is, that they are not using a common user database: They are only synchronising the user accounts.

As it doesn't make sense to integrate Drupal into Moodle, the question (not only Moodle specific) is: "How do I integrate other web-applications into Drupal?". In fact: "How do I use the Drupal user database from outside?".