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LDAPJabberProject

The plan

We're going to make a Jabber server authentication off of LDAP so that users can log in using their names and passwords stored in the DND (no need for a new entry).

Although we can probably get LDAP authentication working, it's unclear how/when we can make it possible to do a full authentication off of the fuzzy-matching of the DND.

Timeline of Progress

• April 14, 2003 -- We're still having problems with Jabber, which might be related to running it on 'dev' (dev has all kinds of random software cruft installed on it). So I'm going to go do some work on 'sa2'. RHpT
  • Here's my scratch page for installing Jabber and getting it to work: LDAP Jabber Scratch

• March 2003 -- Jared Alessandroni is the main guy working on this project. He's got the server working with SSL, and he's got some LDAP authentication code compiled into the Jabber server. Now we just need to figure out why we're getting errors from the LDAP server.

How does it work?

After we get the thing working, we'll grab Jared and have him give a quicky summary here on how he got LDAP playing nicely with Jabber.

Source Code for me!

Sure -- we'll have it available in the Dosc CVS.

Notes

Remember -- we're not using OpenLDAP?, we're using NetscapeLDAP?. (doesn't make a difference for many things, but it is important to remember).

RobinsonTryon - 10 Apr 2003