This is a bugfix release. With the 2.8.1 release, on first load of the login page a authentication error was being displayed. This problem has been corrected.
The plugin can be download from the Sourceforge project page. As always, I hope you enjoy it and please report any problems or suggestions you might have!
The latest version of the WPMU Ldap plugin is now available for download. What happened to 2.8? Since WPMU jumped right to 2.8.1, we will too! This version contains minor bugfixes and a few new features. This release further integrates into the new WPMU 2.8.1 release. The full list of changes are:
In order for users to be able to modify their display name, the display_name value has been modified to edit the value directly in the users db table. Because of this, you will need to run the function on the “Upgrade” tab to migrate over the existing values.
The plugin can be download from the Sourceforge project page. As always, I hope you enjoy it and please report any problems or suggestions you might have!
I’ve been doing some thinking on how to best implement group support into the plugin. This would probably be a multi phase approach, to hopefully fulfill all requests.
NOTE: This is currently a work in progress and there is no estimate on when it will be complete
Per Blog Settings
LDAP Group mapping on a per blog, per role basis. This would all for any given blog to map each individual role to a separate LDAP group. The goal would be for these groups to automatically check for new users on logon and update accordingly. The biggest concern here is figuring out a way for the automatic updating to happen without having a huge impact on performance.
Sitewide Settings
Group based control of the following:
Are there any other thoughts on other possible setups or anything else that others would like added? If so – please leave a comment with your thoughts!
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