190262 - Easier LDAP authentification feature setup process

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Bugzilla :: Installation & Upgrading, enhancement)

Description

[Philippe Astruc]

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This optional module is something very important in the company world as you 
need  to limit the number users passwords to manage. (Required by the security 
department in my company)
We succeded to install 2.16.2 on a test environment in my company with LDAP 
integration but it is a difficult process. (See Documentation bug 189424)
The source code needs to be modified (CGI.pl), you need to check out the source 
code of the SDK from CVS and you need 2 steps of compilation.
I had a look at Bugzilla newsgroup and it seems many people find problems with  
setting up this feature.
It would be very nice to find a smoother way to install and swith on this 
feature of Bugzilla to make it more accessible.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

This was recently fixed on the tip...  we use Net::LDAP now instead of
Mozilla::LDAP.  Net::LDAP is a standard Perl module, and supports a much wider
assortment of LDAP client libraries.  see bug 180642