IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

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I would of thought that the nicest way to do this would be to run an LDAP service and >>use it to manage svn users/groups as well as Zope users/groups and authentication for the > puredata site. Of course, that's significantly more work.

on the long run i think it might well be worth it. especially the user-administration would be eased a lot if we could use the existing framework. no need to ssh to the server and manually edit flat files, the user-managment (setting passwords!) is already handled.

(btw, the user-db of puredata.info is currently not stored in an ldap-tree but rather directly in zope/plone; most likely there exists a possibility to migrate)

I am currently investigating similar possibilities for a different project (we want to manage our users, groups, mailing lists, svn accounts through the Plone/Zope interface, using LDAP as a backend to store account details and credentials). If you are interested in going down this route, i'll keep you posted about my findings.

Jamie