[Catalyst] LDAP

[Gavin Henry]

<quote who="Carl Johnstone">
>> Externally in your organisation?
>
> No to an external organisation that has been contracted by us to provide
and
> host a web application. This application needs to share a single sign-on
with applications built in-house using Catalyst.

Ah, ok. What Directory server are you using btw?

>
>> For configuration, why don't you have one set and reference it from
both *::LDAP ??
>>
>> Or I am being dumb here?
>
> No you're right that I can combine some of the configuration and
reference it accordingly. However I don't have a single obvious place to
add an extra
> method (although J Rockway may have a hack around that).

Sounds good.

>
>> You're pulling LDAP users into your RDBMS? Why not keep them there? If you
>> are using PostgreSQL you can use dblink-ldap as a function. Might be
handy.
>
> No I've got data in my RDBMS that has a relationship to the data in my LDAP
> directory. For example "comments" are added by users, therefore the
comments
> in the database have a submitter for which the details are held in LDAP.
>
> dblink-ldap is interesting but we're a MySQL shop. I'm also taking a
look at
> DBD::LDAP on CPAN which does a similar thing in perl-land.

Understood.

>
> Carl
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> List: Catalyst at lists.scsys.co.uk
> Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst
Searchable archive:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/
> Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
>