[daisy] Fwd: NTLM and groups

[Steven Noels]

On 08 Jul 2008, at 16:22, Tim McDonald wrote:

> Hi
>
> I running in to a problem with the NTLM user authentication scheme  
> and was wondering if the daisy list could provide some pointers on  
> my potential solutions.
>
> I'm successfully set up Daisy to authenticate users against the  
> NTLM domain controller, the users are created. Everything's great :-)
>
> The problem I'm experiencing is that we'd actually like users to be  
> allocated different roles based upon the group they belong to in  
> the windows domain.  For example, users in the student group of the  
> windows domain should be assigned the role of student in daisy.  
> Similarly, users belonging to the staff group of the windows domain  
> should be assigned the role of staff. Our IT chaps require this to  
> ensure the
>
> I've searched the daisy documentation and looked through the source  
> code for the authentication scheme (services/ntlm-auth). Both  
> sources don't appear to offer any guidance on how (or if) groups  
> can be incorporated in the set up of an authentication scheme.


Tim,

you're looking in the correct place but won't find anything since  
groups are currently not supported in the current scheme(s). As  
you've been reading the source code, I'm sure you found out that it's  
pretty easy to add your own auth scheme which does what you want there.

http://cocoondev.org/daisydocs-2_3/373-cd/474-cd/470-cd/471-cd.html

Hope this helps,

</Steven>
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