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

date posted 26th January 2007 16:34

sorry, think you've got the wrong Rich
good luck 'though

On 26 Jan 2007, at 16:31, [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 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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