[OpenID] LDAP-to-OpenID gateway?

[Brendan O'Connor]

What we did (here at Johns Hopkins) is make the account creation step 
verify against our LDAP directory the existence of an account before 
allowing the creation to go through; that's about a six-line addition to 
the PIP code in heraldry, but the code we did wasn't added to heraldry.

This met our needs, but you might want to do the (also very small) 
checks for existence on login, too, if your users have a time when 
they'd become deactivated, or additional changes depending on need. The 
Ruby LDAP stuff is pretty easy to use, but if you'd like our code 
(written by the Systems head of the local ACM chapter), let me know and 
I'll send it offlist.

---Brendan O'Connor

John Fink wrote:
> Hey folks,
> 
> Just had my "Aha!" moment with OpenID yesterday night, and since then my 
> mind has been racing.  Is there anything like a LDAP-to-OpenID gateway?  
> That is, something locally runnable that hooks into an LDAP server and 
> generates accounts (and perhaps OpenID URIs too!) based on information 
> from LDAP?  I've searched this list, and it seems like someone at Johns 
> Hopkins has done this, but I'm not sure how or if those instructions 
> were rolled into Heraldry or what.
> 
> jf
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