Hi, On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Cab Vinton <bibliwho@gmail.com> wrote:
Can someone provide a newbie summary of what functionality LDAP + Koha is supposed to provide? I gather it has something to do with authentication, but who's being authenticated for what?
LDAP stands for the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, and LDAP directories are often used to store directories of people, including login information. Many academic and corporate libraries, and some public libraries, configure Koha to query an LDAP directory run by the host institution to authenticate a user to the OPAC rather than having Koha's patron database be an entirely separate pool of records describing the same people. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton VP, Research & Development, LibLime galen.charlton@liblime.com p: 1-888-564-2457 x709 skype: gmcharlt