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Linux-Announce Digest #841
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Linux-Announce Digest #841, Volume #4 Thu, 29 Jul 2004 07:13:02 EDT
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ANNOUNCE: web2ldap release 0.15.0 (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michael_Str=F6der?=)
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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 18:32:55 CST
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michael_Str=F6der?= <michael@stroeder.com>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: web2ldap release 0.15.0
Reply-To: feedback@web2ldap.de
HI!
Find a new release of web2ldap on
http://www.web2ldap.de/download.html
About:
web2ldap is a full-featured LDAPv3 client written in Python and designed to
run as a stand-alone Web gateway or under the control of a web server with
FastCGI or SCGI support (e.g., Apache with mod_fastcgi or mod_scgi).
Ciao, Michael.
***** 0.15.0 *****
Release Date:2004-07-29
Installation and Configuration changes
* The host:port form in the cascaded configuration was
abandoned. All string-keys MUST be valid LDAP URLs
except the single underscore for the default section.
Additionally one can group configuration parameters
around a common base DN (AKA as search root AKA naming
context) by specifying a LDAP URL with empty hostport
part. (see section Cascaded configuration).
* Note: This release requires upgrading to python-ldap
2.0.1 which contains an important bug fix.
* Performance optimization module psyco is imported if
available.
New features/enhancements
* Sort of a rudimental plugin interface for syntax and
attribute-type classes. Added plugin example module
for attribute types c and gender.
* Added plugin classes for vendor-specific syntaxes and/
or attribute types:
o MS Active Directory (see draft-armijo-ldap-
syntax)
o Novell eDirectory (see draft-sermersheim-nds-
ldap-schema)
o Entrust PKI (see Entrust Directory Schema
Requirements for Entrust 6.0)
o posixAccount (see RFC 2307)
* New host-specific parameter link_css allows to set
different style sheets (CSS URL) for different servers
/ naming contexts.
* A multi-select field is also displayed for abstract
object classes when adding or modifying entries. E.g.
this preserves object class top in an existing entry.
* If attribute schemaNamingContext is present in RootDSE
(e.g. with MS AD) a link is displayed in the schema
viewer to the relating schema element entry found
under the schema naming context.
* Attribute values of syntax OctetString can now be
edited in hex-dump format.
* Support for SASL mechanism NTLM.
* LDAP URLs as string keys for configuration dictionary
are now normalized before building
w2lapp.cnf.ldap_def. This should lead to a more robust
configuration behaviour.
Bug Fixes
* Fixed displaying anonymous login in case a username or
bind-DN was given without password.
* Equals sign added as allowed character to regex
pattern for PrintableString.
* urllib.quote() is used instead of urllib_plus.quote()
which fixes some strange errors with DNs passed around
in URLs.
* Added additional check whether to explicitly add
object class attribute to set of required attributes
in input form. This is a work-around for LDAP servers
which mark the objectClass attribute as not user-
modifiable (e.g. MS Active Directory)
* Properly fall-back to binary download if there is no
special handler for viewing a single binary attribute.
* Imports of sndhdr and StringIO were missing for
w2lapp.schema.syntaxes.Audio.
Code cleaning
* Got rid of calling eval() in pisces.asn1 to be more
friendly to psyco.
* Removed some of the special attribute value detections
in w2lapp.schema.syntaxes.LDAPSyntax.displayValue().
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