Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Moving more developer data to LDAP, for scalability/redundancy (away, foward, permissive, SMTP password, plan) [WAS: Suggestion to ask devs to change their bugzilla name]

[Theo Chatzimichos]

On Saturday 12 June 2010 23:22:09 Brian Harring wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:42:10PM -0700, Alec Warner wrote:
> > perl_ldap is feature-ful but hard to use.  The bind options are
> > confusing (user / recruiters / infra) do I bind as myself?  As anon?
> > Do I specify -b user or
> > -b antarus?  Mutli-valued attributes are confusing for users.
>
> We should specifically have a tool for this instead of having people
> invoking perl_ldap- said tool also gives us easier validation and
> sanity checking.  I'd started one in '06 but had to retire it at
> the time due to ldaps not being supported by the python ldap bindings
> I was using- afaik that issue bindings wise is now long since gone.
>
> Robin, any remenant of that survive?  Else a new one could be wrote I
> suppose.
> ~harring

I wrote a django ldap frontend for my uni thesis, and the ldap library for 
python was working very well, so I would like to help on that.
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