[consulting] Question about LDAP servers

[Mike]

On Thursday 26 August 2010 05:12:48 Sarah Poger Gladstone wrote:
> I am in the process of planning to install an LDAP server to use with
> a Drupal site
Hi,

OpenLDAP is surely a good choice.But:

There are a large number of choices to make when considering an LDAP server 
(regardless the type) to use with Drupal.

Questions arise like:
- Is LDAP hosted and managed at the company where you implementing Drupal?
- Is the company already familiar with LDAP?
- Does the company use Microsoft servers?
- Where are you  planning to host the LDAP ? (separate server, existing 
server)
- What are the number of users and groups?
- What are the characteristic of the users (frequency of loggings, password 
changes, group)
- Integration with back office systems (in future) 

I guess you have looked at http://drupal.org/project/ldap_integration. 
I think:
- You need a good testing plan
- You need to have requirements regarding why you need an LDAP server
- Make a (small) design
- Look again at openID and openauth. 
- Look at performance issues and potential maintenance issues


Regards,

Maikel
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