Index: openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/xml/install-guide/other-software.xml =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/xml/install-guide/other-software.xml,v diff -u -r1.13.2.8 -r1.13.2.9 --- openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/xml/install-guide/other-software.xml 16 Nov 2004 17:09:40 -0000 1.13.2.8 +++ openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/xml/install-guide/other-software.xml 27 Nov 2004 01:32:55 -0000 1.13.2.9 @@ -1052,7 +1052,7 @@ Configure ns_ldap for use with LDAP bind - LDAP authentication usually is done by trying to bind (aka. login) a user with the LDAP server. The password of the user is not stored in any field of the LDAP server, but kept internally. The latest version of ns_ldap supports this method with the ns_ldap bind command. All you have to do to enable this is to configure auth_ldap to make use of the BIND authentification instead. Alternatively you can write a small script on how to calculate the username out of the given input (e.g. if the OpenACS username is malte.fb03.tu, the LDAP request can be translated into "ou=malte,ou=fb03,o=tu" (this example is encoded in auth_ldap and you just have to comment it out to make use of it). + LDAP authentication usually is done by trying to bind (aka. login) a user with the LDAP server. The password of the user is not stored in any field of the LDAP server, but kept internally. The latest version of ns_ldap supports this method with the ns_ldap bind command. All you have to do to enable this is to configure auth_ldap to make use of the BIND authentification instead. Alternatively you can write a small script on how to calculate the username out of the given input (e.g. if the OpenACS username is malte.fb03.tu, the LDAP request can be translated into "ou=malte,ou=fb03,o=tu" (this example is encoded in auth_ldap and you just have to comment it out to make use of it).