Re: FN-FORUM: Looking for a forum / bulletin board that lets me use a pre-defined user/password list

date posted 26th January 2007 15:43

David,

Did a little digging, and someone has written an LDAP module for vBulletin:

http://www.sartori.at/

Unfortunately it's =80100 for the "light" version. That on top of the
vBulletin license cost could make it fairly expensive for you, unless
you want to write your own ;)

Cheers,
Rich.

On 26 Jan 2007 16:29:32 -0000, [EMAIL REMOVED]
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
>
> Hi Rich
>
> Thanks for the response. What I'm really after in a perfect world is a
> recommendation on a board that doesn't store its own user/passwords at al=
l
> so I don't end up with duplication of user data etc. The client has a
> available corporate LDAP directory which is centrally maintained and site=
s
> that authenticate against that, so I don't really want users to have to
> either register onto a new system, or for an administrator to have to
> duplicate the data over. It would be possible to hack a board current
> system I suppose along the lines of
> - is user logged in?
> - if not make 'em login via LDAP authentication, and set appropriate cook=
ies
> that the board is expecting
> - does user have account in board?
> - if not, create board account with LDAP derived data
>
> Only problem with that, is clearing out ex-users (which, again, I suppose
> could be done by every so often checking the board database against the L=
DAP
> data).
>
> All-in-all, as you say, it's a pile of hacking that I'm surprised I have =
to
> go through; i.e.. no-one seems to have created a board with this in mind.
>
> I'm tempted to hack one up over the weekend from scratch ;-)
>
> Cheers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of Richard
> Flack
> Sent: 26 January 2007 16:16
> To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Looking for a forum / bulletin board that lets me =
use
> a pre-defined user/password list
>
>
> David,
>
> Most forums aren't very complex, and use simple authentication.
> Usually a users table with a username, password, default permissions and =
a
> password which is md5 hashed.
>
> It should be trivial to write your own user import script for vBulletin,
> just install it, create a new user and then copy the default permissions
> just substituting the username and password fields for the ones you want =
to
> use.
>
> Most forums will also allow you to specify who can access which sections.
> My forum of choice is vBulletin, however it's not free.
>
> Cheers,
> Rich.
>
> On 26 Jan 2007 12:26:39 -0000, [EMAIL REMOVED]
> [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> >
> > Morning
> >
> > Been looking for ages for a simple forum that:
> >
> > - lets me use a list of user / passes that I already have (either in a
> > SQL table or via LDAP connection/lookup)
> >
> > - lets me have a number of different sections, and control who is
> > allowed into each section (again, I already have this data)
> >
> > - PHP / MySQL for preference
> >
> > There's a load of forums out there, but none that I can find that
> > provide
> > *easy* external authentication. There seems to be lots of calls for
> > it, and lots of half-way kludges but nothing that's already done (am I
> > wrong - I hope I am).
> >
> > I can code one up form scratch, but it seems to be silly to re-invent
> > the wheel.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > David.
> >
> >
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