[TriLUG] mailing list software interfacing to AD

[Warren Myers]

We're trying to not write our own webapp, so that supprting it in the future
is not an issue. I've been looking on sourceforge to no avail yet to find a
mailing list manager that doesn't require lots of administrative
intervention.

There is no stipulation that it has to run linux (though it would be nice) -
it can be a windows, linux, aix, or bsd based tool, it just has to be able
to query our AD backend to make sure only authorized users set up lists. It
doesn't even have to be open source - if a commercial tool will do the
trick, we'll use it.

Right now our primary web servers run on IIS (I hate it, but it's how it's
set up), so getting the server to talk to AD shouldn't be a huge deal - it's
just getting the mailing list manager to do it that we're having trouble
finding.

WMM

On 6/2/06, David McDowell <turnpike420 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If you just need Apache to auth to AD for login to the web app:
> http://www.turnpike420.net/linux/Apache_ADS_AuthLDAP.txt and use
> mod_auth_ldap
>
> If you need the app itself to auth (I've never done this) you'll
> probably need to look into if the app can auth using ldap and if it
> can, can it read the AD or will you have to tweak other things??  Just
> ideas...
>
> I use the Apache auth to AD in production here and it works great.
>
> Even an app like Request Tracker I was able to use my AD users (b/c
> the way RT is setup is that if you use any auth method through the
> browser, it can pickup that username and if that username matches a
> user in its database, it allows it in.  RT assumes if you can auth in
> the browser, then you must be that person so it allows you to be that
> person in RT.)
>
> David McD
>
>
> On 6/1/06, Warren Myers <volcimaster at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Afternoon.
> >
> > I'm looking for a mailing list manager that will run under Linux but
> > authenticate against Active Directory so that authorized users can
> setup,
> > manage, and delete their own lists - prefereably with a web interface.
> Right
> > now our IT department manually creates lists for users, then they can
> manage
> > membership of their lists via a web interface, but deleteing and
> shifting
> > assigned managers is all done by us, and we're trying to push some of
> that
> > responsibility onto our users.
> >
> > Thanks for any help.
> > Warren
> >
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with the prime numbers." --Paul Erdős
"It's not possible. We are the type of people who have everything in our
favor going against us." --Ben Jarhvi, Short Circuit 2