CAS is widely used in universities and should fit your needs. I believe that behind the scenes, the CAS server can use a LDAP server for the ultimate authentication.
http://drupal.org/project/cas
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On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 7:13 AM, antgiant<antgiant+drupalDevel@gmail.com> wrote:
I've done this before, but it required custom code in all cases. In> We have several drupal installs that all use the same LDAP setup for
> authentication. We would like to setup Single Sign On for all of those
> sites, but it is not feasible for us to use a shared database.
> Additionally, we are using LDAP groups to create the Drupal roles. Any
> advice on how to accomplish this? Thanks in advance.
my experience building these systems each one is just different enough
that it wasn't something that could be contributed as a general
module.
Regards,
Greg
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