[Moin-user] user authentication

[Thomas Waldmann]

Robert Schumann wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 16:04 +0530, agalya at tce.edu wrote:
>   
>>>> we want to add moinmoin for one of the services in our website.we
>>>> already
>>>> got a database for users and use them for user authentication.we wish to
>>>> use the same for the Moinmoin also.can anyone provide us the way this
>>>> can
>>>> be implemented...
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Sure. If you use some standard auth method, you can maybe simply use one
>>> of the existing MoinMoin.auth functions (http auth, ldap auth, php
>>> session, ssl client cert auth, ...).
>>>
>>> If nothing there fits your needs, you can just write your own auth
>>> function, see the samples there.
>>>       
>> we are using ldap authentication method and in auth.py we dont find a
>> method called ldap auth.We are using moin-1.5.2.Help regarding this.
>>     
>
> One option is to upgrade to moin-1.5.4.
And that one is highly recommended. :)
> If you don't want to do that,
> then at least download moin-1.5.4 and take a look at the contents of the
> file auth.py (which has an ldap method) and also at the sample
> configuration files which are supplied.  You may be able to use that
> code in your 1.5.2 setup.
>   
If you want to backport it, you might have to fix some of the ldap auth 
code as (IIRC) i did some changes to auth processing.

So just upgrading to 1.5.4 is the easier and better path (and you also 
get some bugfixes at other places, too).