[Twisted-Python] bringing LDAP back

[Hynek Schlawack]

On 28 Jun 2014, at 0:27, Glyph wrote:

> Recently however, the authors of this LDAP code have generously 
> re-licensed the code under a Twisted-compatible MIT license, both the 
> original code at 
> <https://github.com/tv42/ldaptor/commit/7e249b1586789a5c588f662ce74ee9f4338666e0> 
> and the more recent fork (which I believe has more users) at 
> <https://github.com/antong/ldaptor/issues/10>.  It seems as though 
> there's even a solution for the problematic MD4 implementation here 
> <https://github.com/tv42/ldaptor/pull/2>.
>
> Since there's no active, central hub for ldaptor development, I think 
> we should pull it into the Twisted org on Github, and some of the 
> folks on the Cc: line have volunteered to help with that.
>
> Does that sound good to everybody?  (Are you excited!!!?)

YES.

I’m glad I didn’t come around to do it by myself until now. ;)

> It's also a possibility that we could distribute a for-real SSO 
> back-end with Cred using this, which I'm pretty excited about.

LDAPUsernamePasswordDatabaseDoUse? ;)