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

date posted 26th January 2007 15:38


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 all
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 sites
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 cookies
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 LDAP
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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