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   From: questman@ubesuxthemajorbbs.com   
      
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   > The product I had in mind was radius which obviously is not what I thought   
   > it was. Since posing this question I have done some more research and it   
   > seems that what I need is an LDAP or active directory setup. The problem is   
   > that it apparently will involve an awfull learning curve and most likely a   
   > big dollar outlay as well. I have yet to find any "out of the box" type   
   > product and what there is seems geared towards enterprise business   
   > applications.   
      
   There aren't any out of the box products that do what you're looking   
   for, no, but that doesn't mean it isn't possible...   
      
   > Anyway, what I thought was that I could set up an "Ldap", whatever that   
   > might consist of and auth WG against it as I replace WG modules one by one   
   > with aftermarket products keeping the sign up/login process centralized.   
   > Based on what you are saying I wonder if I could retain the WG as the   
   > "Ldap", Identity management, user database or whatever you want to call it.   
   > The types of products I would want to auth against it would be email server,   
   > forums, instant messenger, photo database, etc.  Essentially I have a poor   
   > man's portal in WG 3.3 but need to take it to the next level with some state   
   > of the art features/software without spending enterprise type dollars.   
   > I'm currently getting 150-200k page loads per month with 2500 users. I have   
   > up to 30 users online at any given time with forums being the main draw   
   > followed by email. Income is based on advertising.   
   > I know that if I can update I can probably double those stats within a year.   
   > It seems that all the login based web doodads I look at are moving towards   
   > authenticating against either Ldap or AD standards. I have no idea what the   
   > mechanics are behind that, could an interface be written to make WG act as a   
   > poor man's overly simple user management system using ladap/AD standards?   
      
   Yes, that's the current direction - LDAP - such as Oracle's OID (Oracle   
   Internet Directory), Microsoft's Active Directory, etc.   
      
   So what you're looking to do is - keep Worldgroup as your portal, and,   
   keep it's user database as the actual user database.  You'd like to   
   expose an LDAP-compliant interface that uses Worldgroup as its source.   
      
   Since Worldgroup is not LDAP, it would involve writing something that   
   looks like LDAP, but actually isn't.   
      
   It can be done, yes.  I'd have to do some investigation on how long it'd   
   take, but it's doable.   
      
   Rick   
      
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