[Zope] Dumb question: Can Zope be used as a LDAP server?

[Jens Vagelpohl]

dirk hits it on the head.

why reinvent the wheel? it is not that hard to install and run OpenLDAP 
and even create your own custom schemata. and then there are products 
that enable you to maintain the data in LDAP from within zope itself.

what's next, a gopher server for zope? ;)

jens

P.S.: i agree that it would be a somewhat cool thing. but is the 
undoubtedly large effort worth it? you'll work a lot and never match 
the capabilities of a real LDAP server.



On Sunday, Dec 8, 2002, at 10:10 US/Eastern, Dirk Datzert wrote:

>
>
> Stephan Richter schrieb:
>>
>> On Sunday 08 December 2002 09:43, Luca Olivetti wrote:
>>> Dirk Datzert wrote:
>>>> Hi Luis,
>>>>
>>>> Zope is an application server, where you can run your own
>>>> LDAP-administration software.
>>>>
>>>> But the LDAP-Server is a standalone server which is not zope !
>>>>
>>>> You can bind users in zope against users in LDAP (with 
>>>> LDAPUserFolder)
>>>> but this did not mean that zope is a LDAP-Server.
>>>
>>> Yes, but imagine the opposite: that you have a contacts database in 
>>> zope
>>> and want it to be useable by, say, mozilla or any other mail client 
>>> that
>>> can query ldap servers for its address book.
>>
>> Well, start an effort to write an LDAP server on top of Zope. LDAP is 
>> a
>> complex protocol; I would be glad to see a Zope-based server. There 
>> is an
>> LDAP server module for Twisted you might want to check out for a 
>> start.
>>
>
> I would suggest: put the contacts database on a real LDAP-Server (e.g.
> openldap - full functional and very well working LDAP-server)
>
> Write on top of Zope your management tool for that contacts database.
> There are some products to do this: LDAPUserFolder +
> LDAPDirectoryManager
>
> -> use the right tool for the right issue, don't reinvent the wheel !
>
> Regards,
> Dirk
>
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