[ZWeb] new zope 3 wiki is ready

[Jim Fulton]

Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
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>> when necessary. (How hard would it be to authenticated against 
>> zope.org via ldap ?)
> 
> The LDAP server is on the private network inside the zope.org "cluster" 
> and not reachable by the outside world, so as of right now that's not 
> possible.
> 
> If we continue down the path of microsites the issue of shared 
> authentication will become more and more urgent.
> 
> If LDAP is still an option (I know quite a few people don't like it 
> because they perceive it as complicated or hard to wrap ones brain 
> around) the first step would be to set up a central LDAP server instance 
> that can be reached over the internet by the different microsites. This 
> can be bootstrapped with a data export from the old zope.org server, not 
> a big issue. There might be an issue with latency if the geographically 
> widely dispersed microsites don't have excellent network connectivity 
> towards that central LDAP server, which in turn can be solved by LDAP 
> slaves closer to the microsite host.

+1

I don't like using ldap unless there is a good reason to do so,
but it's use here certainly seems justified -- especially if
someone with the requisite expertise is involved. :)

Jim

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