Changes between Version 14 and Version 15 of DirectoryAuthPlugin

Timestamp:

Apr 19, 2015, 11:36:10 AM (9 years ago)

Author:

figaro

Comment:

Cosmetic changes, renamed heading to maintain consistency

DirectoryAuthPlugin

@@ -9 +9 @@
 Users are authenticated by performing an ldap_bind against a directory using their credentials. The plugin will also pull the email address and displayName from Directory and populate the `session_attribute` table.
 
-== Features
+Key features:
 
  - Can use a service account to do lookups, or anonymous binding.
- - Can use SSL if openssl is configured correctly.
- - Configurable .. many options to deal with the differences between directories and schema.
+ - Can use SSL if [https://www.openssl.org/ openssl] is configured correctly.
+ - Configurable: many options to deal with the differences between directories and schema.
  - Uses both memory and db based caching to improve performance.
- - Now supports LARGE directories '''Updated'''.
+ - Supports large directories:
    - Searches Groups more efficiently using Member.
    - Recurses up the tree to find subgroups.
@@ -44 +44 @@
 ==== Prerequisites
 
- - You must install AccountManagerPlugin in order to use this plugin.  
+ - You must install AccountManagerPlugin to use this plugin.  
  - [pypi:python-ldap/ Python-LDAP] is also required.
  - For SSL, you will have to install and configure OpenSSL to work with valid certificates. You can test using `ldapsearch -Z`.
@@ -53 +53 @@
 
  - Starting with v0.3, a database upgrade will be required as part of the installation. 
-   1. Install the plugin and its prerequisites
+   1. Install the plugin and its prerequisites.
    1. Update the database:
 {{{#!sh
@@ -62 +62 @@
 See [DirectoryAuthPlugin/ConfigurationExamples ConfigurationExamples].
 
-== Common Errors
+== Common Issues
 
  - When using SSL, the server won't authenticate. Make sure you can use `ldapsearch -Z` with the same parameters from the same host, and resolve the issues there. A handy way to do that is to use: