[dev] Active Directory Development

[Mike Peachey]

Ben Klang wrote:
> Please see my comments inline below:
 >
> You should have a checkbox option on the Group configuration tab named 
> "attrisdn".  This switch makes the Group_ldap driver use DNs instead of 
> usernames for gorup membership.
>

Not there.. perhaps added later than webmail-1.0.4?

>> There is another one that I haven't started on yet which is nested 
>> groups in Active Directory. 
>>
> I have a patch written in my environment which will enable this 
> functionality.  I would be happy to speak with you offline about this 
> patch as it was rejected from mainstream Horde for architectural 
> reasons.  We hope to revisit it in Horde 4.0.

Please do - you have my e-mail address - can provide other means of 
contact too.

> If you are considering stepping up your contributions I would suggest to 
> you that you might find the conversation in #horde-dev of Freenode's IRC 
> network to be helpful.  In that channel you can speak with some of the 
> Horde developers directly.  

In #horde and #horde-dev (aka the wasteland) now.

> Alternatively you can post here to reach a 
> wider potential audience.  Finally there is good documentation in the 
> Horde Wiki (http://wiki.horde.org), in the API documentation 
> (http://dev.horde.org), and in the comments of the source code itself.

I have noticed - esp. the API library.
>>
> Good luck and I look forward to working with you.
> 

You too.
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