Re: [SAGE] suggestions for web forum software w/LDAP intergration?

[John Sechrest <sechrest@jas.peak.org>]

Drupal (http://www.drupal.org) supports Ldap integration and supports
forums. And supports organic groups, that allows you to bind who can 
access what resource in the system. 

It is a toolkit that could solve this problem with the right choice 
of modules.



David Blank-Edelman <dnb@ccs.neu.edu> writes:

 % Howdy-
 %    After being soured by one commercial offering (vBulletin), I'm on  
 % the hunt for a web forum package which integrates with LDAP. By  
 % "integrates," I mean I'd like to:
 % 
 % 1) authenticate users off of an existing LDAP server (vs. using a  
 % separate account system)
 % 2) authorize users (e.g. who can see a particular forum, list of  
 % moderators, etc) from existing LDAP groups
 % 
 % I'm looking at the package by Jive Software but I'm not certain I can/ 
 % want to pay their fairly substantial prices. I haven't found much  
 % else that plays in this space.
 % 
 % Any other suggestions? Thanks.
 % 
 %       -- dNb
 %   
 % 

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