Oct 28 2008

LDAP and WordPress Mu

Published by Kenneth Newquist at 10:25 am under Web Applications, WordPress and tagged: , ,




An absolutely essential component of any WordPress roll-out we do is support for LDAP, either directly through an LDAP module or indirectly through Shibboleth support. Fortunately, there’s a current LDAP plugin available that handles the first part; I’m still looking into what Shib support there may be.

This plugin worked out of the box for me with WordPress Mu 2.6.x, which is always a nice thing.

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4 Responses to “LDAP and WordPress Mu”

  1.   # Will Norrison 30 Oct 2008 at 6:10 pm

    I remember Michael Gettes talking about Shibbolizing WordPress some time ago. If I remember correctly, he found a WP plugin to just use REMOTE_USER for authentication, which will of course work fine with the Shib SP. Of course if you want to pull additional Shib attributes, then you’d have to do a little extra work. Shouldn’t be too hard.

  2.   # Kenneth Newquiston 31 Oct 2008 at 10:33 am

    Interesting. I’ll have to check that out. We aren’t using Shib for Single Sign On yet, but I could see us moving in that direction in the future.

  3.   # Will Norrison 31 Oct 2008 at 9:53 pm

    So I went ahead and knocked out a basic Shibboleth plugin for WordPress. Let me know what you think.

    http://tr.im/ptj

  4.   # Kenneth Newquiston 02 Nov 2008 at 5:59 pm

    Very nice … I’ll check it out.

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