vbulletin ldap hack

[boiboi]

I'm interested in this hack or even sharing the cost to have it made. Pls let me know. Thanks!

[Lesane]

Whats Idap?

[shri]

I second this request and am also willing to pay for it / go under non-disclosure with Jelsoft to get this done, if its a part of 3.0.

Atleast, I need to seperate the authentication part from user preferences, profile and permissions.

This would allow people to authenticate with LDAP, IMAP server etc.. leading to more integration with other services ( mail / single signon / micropayments etc ).

Right now I'm looking at merging about 3 or 4 sites with a total of 40K users and need to figure out a way to quickly seperate user authentication from other items stored in the user table.

[boiboi]

Our site hasn't been launch. But we integrated vbulletin and Horde imp webmail, both using 1 msql db. We use mysql auth with qmail-mysql patch which hasn't kept up with the courier-imap upgrades. Mysql, as I was told by Horde can be replicated on other servers and sync if additional servers are needed and even across several clusters. But it will be much slower than ldap.

[Till]

Originally posted by Lesane
Whats Idap?

http://www.openldap.org

[Zate]

my daily job is an LDAP admin and i am looking at taking the users table and perhaps a little extra info and having it as a schema in an openLDAP directory. Authorisation woudl be against the LDAP dir and all post info woudl be against the mysql Dir.

Main reason I can see this working for is a central user store for multiple boards, or for intranet users (such as myself).

I envision someone clicking the register button, entering a username and that username being looked up in the LDAP server. If it is found, the user registers and their user info is stored in their entry in the LDAP server, a modified user entry is stored in the db aswell for that board.

signing on to another board, registration see's existing user entry under that DN (name) and prompts for password, if password matches then info is pulled from the LDAP dir and populated into the DB, user can login to 2 boards, or multiple now.

I am still planning/thinking about this.. but give me feed back if you like

no guarantee i am going to do this, but I am pretty interested in doing it.

if anyone has a really good understanding of how the vB login process works / user storage .. and might be able to help out let me know.. as it is i am going to go through and work all that out.

[boiboi]

I've used a similar implentation for IMP and Vbulletin. It worked pretty well... changepass, separate login form, password retrieve (as long as it's not encrypted). But I found it to be time consuming. To keep up vbulletin and IMP upgrade, I have to tinker with each new release to work with LDAP.

[AmericanWoman]

^bump^

This has been done, by a couple of you guys - I'm working on a pretty massive project for 12 sites to run off of a single authentication database. I would prefer to use LDAP, and would be more than happy to pay someone to help me get it done.

We're going to be launching one subsite at a time from November through January...

I'll make a request in the paid hacks forum, but am curious about how the implementations described above went.

[fengshui-123]

I search through the forum and could not find this hack, where can I download this hack?

The following message is from another forum:

Originally Posted by Scott MacVicar
It would require a bit of modification.

If your using Microsoft Exchange then it would be possible to setup LDAP on Exchange.

PHP provides some nice functions for accessing the server. It would involve changing the login part of the script to connect to the ldap server, verify its a valid user and then select the details from the user table based on the entered username.
If there is no entry for that user, then an insert could be done on the user table.

Wayne Luke:You would have to check at our modification community which is at www.vbulletin.org. We can't discuss indepth coding changes here for various reasons.

[awillys]

Has this hack been released since?