Re: Need help getting Slide to use LDAP.

2004-05-28 Thread James Mason
James Mason Adventist Health Programmer/Analyst 916.783.2576 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/26/04 6:11 PM Yes, JAAS could be used. I didn't think of it before because Slide seems to require a little bit more. You need to expose these user nodes and provide some standard properties. Is

Re: Need help getting Slide to use LDAP.

2004-05-26 Thread Alan Wood
On Tue, 25 May 2004 09:38:25 -0700, James Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It might be posible to define a standard mechanism, maybe by writing some Abstract Store class for a partial or transparent store, where a store that does not handle an operation it delegates to the parent store. For example,

Re: Need help getting Slide to use LDAP.

2004-05-26 Thread Carlos Villegas
Alan Wood wrote: On Tue, 25 May 2004 09:38:25 -0700, James Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It might be posible to define a standard mechanism, maybe by writing some Abstract Store class for a partial or transparent store, where a store that does not handle an operation it delegates to the parent

Re: Need help getting Slide to use LDAP.

2004-05-26 Thread Alan Wood
On Thu, 27 May 2004 00:58:07 +0900, Carlos Villegas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Wood wrote: On Tue, 25 May 2004 09:38:25 -0700, James Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It might be posible to define a standard mechanism, maybe by writing some Abstract Store class for a partial or transparent

Re: Need help getting Slide to use LDAP.

2004-05-26 Thread Carlos Villegas
Alan Wood wrote: I see where your coming from, using the readonly store implementation (for say user and password) avoids the transaction issues. But if this were to be implemented (just user and password) it would be best to create the store so that it outsourced authentication in a standard

Re: Need help getting Slide to use LDAP.

2004-05-25 Thread James Mason
It might be posible to define a standard mechanism, maybe by writing some Abstract Store class for a partial or transparent store, where a store that does not handle an operation it delegates to the parent store. For example, you mount a standard store on /, Tx or JDBC, and then you mount

Re: Need help getting Slide to use LDAP.

2004-05-24 Thread Alan Wood
James I think its a great idea, in my opinion would also really help slide in a number of applications i am working on too. On Fri, 21 May 2004 11:09:30 -0700, James Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's what I'm hoping to have when I get finished: 1. Tomcat authenticates users against an LDAP

Re: Need help getting Slide to use LDAP.

2004-05-24 Thread James Mason
Al, I'm glad you like the idea :). One of my personal pet peeves is the lack of LDAP support for user management in a lot of opensource products, so I'm hoping I can help remedy that a little. I think one has to consider what the benefits of using LDAP are as a user store? I would have thought

Re: Need help getting Slide to use LDAP.

2004-05-24 Thread James Mason
I think JNDI may have a benefit here, plus slide could also benefit from a little JNDI support, again these are not areas of my expertese, just my $0.02, and I would certainly be prepared to help as long as the code was contributed back (I.E opensourced). I'll have to check with my boss

Re: Need help getting Slide to use LDAP.

2004-05-24 Thread Carlos Villegas
James Mason wrote: Talking about ACLs gets really sticky. As far as I know every LDAP server has it's own unique way of managing authorizations internally. Since LDAP is just a communication protocol I don't think it has any specifications for this, so I don't know of any standard way to get/set

Need help getting Slide to use LDAP.

2004-05-21 Thread James Mason
Here's what I'm hoping to have when I get finished: 1. Tomcat authenticates users against an LDAP repository. 2. Slide authorizes users against an LDAP repository. 3. Slide authorizes groups (or roles) against an LDAP repository. 4. Slide determines group/role membership from user membership in