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March 13, 2006 6:28 AM   RSS feed for this thread Subscribe

Can anyone reccommend message board software that can run on Apache and authenticate through Active Directory / LDAP?

For my needs this doesn't have to be free, but needs to be production quality.
posted by yeahyeahyeahwhoo to computers & internet (5 comments total)
I did some research on this and found JIVE to be the best one. It also can synch forums with USENET newsgroups as well as email lists.
posted by bkdelong at 7:03 AM on March 13, 2006


ouch, i'm worried the Jive price tag is too much for how much this board will be used. If i have to i can use apache authentication or even use IIS, but i have to get this authenticating with an existing Active Directory install.

help me hive mind, today has been a bad day!
posted by yeahyeahyeahwhoo at 7:57 AM on March 13, 2006


phpBB? if you google for "phpbb ldap" you get this, which has a link in it to an LDAP authentication module for phpBB. you can authenticate against Active Directory using LDAP. (it's kind of a pain until you figure out how - MS does groups a bit differently than a lot of straight LDAP setups do.) phpBB is free, you have to have PHP installed on your server (on Windows it's pretty easy), and there's a pretty big user base for it.

FWIW, I've successfully gotten Apache 2.2 to authenticate against Active Directory using mod_authnz_ldap. The main problem I had with it was formatting the bind DN properly (it was a bit different than the one I was using for our just plain-old LDAP server).
posted by mrg at 8:16 AM on March 13, 2006


Just so you don't limit your search too much, you can pretty much use anything that can do local account or apache authentication. You can get apache to use local auth, and configure pam to authenticate against ldap. That does mean running apache on a linux box, though. Are you restricted to a Windows environment?
posted by team lowkey at 1:02 PM on March 13, 2006


the phpBB mod is way out of date, and old phpBB and phpBB in general has a bad security reputation. and the main thing is that i want a professional product, not one i have to hack to get working.

right now i'm trying to work with Invision Power Board, but the LDAP documentation is non-existant and i'm far from enthusiastic about the time i've spent guessing at configuration syntax, etc.
posted by yeahyeahyeahwhoo at 10:48 AM on March 15, 2006


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