[Mailman-Users] LDAP

[Mark Sapiro]

Anne Anderson wrote:

>Can LDAP be used to authenticate logins for mailman?


Yes, but depending on what you actually want, there may be significant
implimentation effort involved. This is not an out-of-box or turn-key
installation.

The LDAP MemberAdaptor linked below has several limitations. Quoting
from the link below:

Mailman lists with LDAP-based membership can still have moderators,
list policies, and the other usual features of Mailman lists. There
are a few missing features; notably:

1. There is no bounce processing.
2. There are no per-user preferences.
3. The Web interface still allows you to try setting user preferences,
but if you do you will get a stack thrown at you. (Only the "readable"
interface of MemberAdaptor is implemented.)
4. The LDAP settings of a list (e.g. LDAP server and search string) are
only administrable by editing its "extend.py" file, not over the Web.
5. There is no digest mode.

>> See
>> <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=871062&group_id=103&atid=300103>.
>> 

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