On Tuesday 31 January 2012 16:27:46 Dirk Kastens wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to write an ldap backend for group management. I'm using ldap > for authentication and I like to use our ldap posixgroups for group > memberships of the users. > > But I've seen that the group module is not prepared for external > backends, like the user module is. The user module can use different > backends, and a backend doesn't have to have implemented all user > functions, like createUser or deleteUser. This should be possible with > the group module, too. As far as I can see, you can only have a single > group backend, and if you change the backend, the admin user is missing > his admin group, for example. > > I've started to rewrite the group module according to the implementation > of the user module. But there are too many dependencies. Are you > planning to rewrite the group management - or am I missing something and > it's easy to write an ldap backend for groups? > > Dirk
You're right, the group system isn't build for multiply backends yet. Changing it to behave simular to the users system has been a plan for a while but I never got to it. - Robin Appelman _______________________________________________ Owncloud mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud
