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On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Timothy Wilson wrote:

> I'm wondering if anyone can tell me if I'll be able to get the PTK
> authentication mechanism to work with Novell's NDS. We have 6,000 or so
> people in our NDS directory in my school district, and I'd like to have
> them use their existing NDS passwords to log in to the Web site. Pipedream
> or reality?

No problem! Not out of the box, of course. You'll probably have to
find and adapt or write from scratch the authentication mechanism.

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Caldera have a NDS for Linux it's free for upto 3 users, I have never used
it. Could be a good place to start. there is another company that is
supposed to be developing a Opensource version of NDS for LINUX/WinNt they
hoped to have a first beta be march but for the life of me I can not
remember the url.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Pelletier [mailto:mike@digicool.com]
Sent: Friday, 4 February 2000 6:37
To: Timothy Wilson
Cc: zope-ptk@zope.org
Subject: Re: [Zope-PTK] PTK and NDS


On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Timothy Wilson wrote:

> I'm wondering if anyone can tell me if I'll be able to get the PTK
> authentication mechanism to work with Novell's NDS. We have 6,000 or so
> people in our NDS directory in my school district, and I'd like to have
> them use their existing NDS passwords to log in to the Web site. Pipedream
> or reality?

No problem! Not out of the box, of course. You'll probably have to
find and adapt or write from scratch the authentication mechanism.

--
Mike Pelletier email: mike@digicool.com
Mild mannered software developer icq: 7127228
by day, super villain by night. phone: 519-884-2434


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On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 08:10:21AM +1000, Stephen Cimarelli wrote:
> Caldera have a NDS for Linux it's free for upto 3 users, I have never used
> it. Could be a good place to start. there is another company that is
> supposed to be developing a Opensource version of NDS for LINUX/WinNt they
> hoped to have a first beta be march but for the life of me I can not
> remember the url.

http://www.timpanogas.com I think. (I'm not affliliated with them in any way).

-Petru

On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Stephen Cimarelli wrote:

> Caldera have a NDS for Linux it's free for upto 3 users, I have never used
> it. Could be a good place to start. there is another company that is
> supposed to be developing a Opensource version of NDS for LINUX/WinNt they
> hoped to have a first beta be march but for the life of me I can not
> remember the url.

Hmm, I'd thought that someone had already created an NDS-using
UserFolder. Oh well, strike my comments.

>
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Pelletier [mailto:mike@digicool.com]
> Sent: Friday, 4 February 2000 6:37
> To: Timothy Wilson
> Cc: zope-ptk@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope-PTK] PTK and NDS
>
>
> On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Timothy Wilson wrote:
>
> > I'm wondering if anyone can tell me if I'll be able to get the PTK
> > authentication mechanism to work with Novell's NDS. We have 6,000 or so
> > people in our NDS directory in my school district, and I'd like to have
> > them use their existing NDS passwords to log in to the Web site. Pipedream
> > or reality?
>
> No problem! Not out of the box, of course. You'll probably have to
> find and adapt or write from scratch the authentication mechanism.
>
>

--
Mike Pelletier email: mike@digicool.com
Mild mannered software developer icq: 7127228
by day, super villain by night. phone: 519-884-2434