LDAP User and Groups Integration with Scalable LDAP integration framework
Posted by glisa.tk on April 12, 2010 at 11:57pm
Overview:
Most of the systems uses LDAP as a backend store for the user information and their groups for authentication and access control. So, the integration modules are developed keeping in mind this fact turned out to be with the fixed or limited set of attributes to be mapped with. So this makes the LDAP integration limited to those set of attributes and in turn assumes certain backend configuration.
The aim of this project is to develop a framework for creating and utilizing a map of any arbitrary entries. This would help in setting configuration that is flexible and not so dependent on the directory implementation.
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