RE: Penguins and Portals

["Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>]

It's a web front-end to, well, a bunch of things, including other web
sites.

The problem that's being solved is one of unified front-ends to multiple
systems. So, rather than bookmarking dozens of web pages, you have a single
page that contains links to them.

The traditional way of doing this in a large corporate was to have an
"staff home page", that contained all the links. The trouble with
this is that it meant that, for any given user, a lot of screen real-estate
was wasted linking to things that they couldn't use. (eg - only finance
people had access to the finance system, only HR to Peoplesoft etc.)

The modern way of doing this is that the home page authenticates staff
against an existing LDAP database (already in place), and then works out
what links should be presented to them, based on their role.

For example, in Kingfisher, anyone who was "Comet staff" would
see the "Comet news" page, and the "Comet new products"
database. B&Q, by comparison would see theres. Likewise Screwfix,
Darty, Castorama, Promarkt etc...

There are plenty of tools to do this (ATG Portal server, IBM have a product
etc.) but they are all expensive.

I believe that the task ISN'T complex, and therefore it should be possible
to find a GPL product that does 80% of what we want. This is a much easier
project to get funding for than a $$$ATG solution.

Regards,

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Calum Morrell [mailto:calum@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 25 April 2002 18:29
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Penguins and Portals


On 25 Apr 2002 at 16:39, Mark Harrison wrote:
> OK,
> Anyone know of any GPL software (running on either Linux or Win2k/XP)
> that will talk to an LDAP directory, authenticate a user, and give
> them a roles-based portal?
> Regards,
> Mark

I'm not entirely sure what you are looking for tbh. openLDAP is a very good
v3 compliant LDAP server with client access and 
administration utilities. GNU/Linux has the ability to authenticate a login
via LDAP, and many distos have this as a standard 
feature.

Am I anywhere close to what you're looking for? If not, can you explain to
me in words of one syllable or less? :-)

--
Calum Morrell
http://www.drochaid.org




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