exUserFolder now has support for SMB and RADIUS

exUserFolder now support authentication over SMB and RADIUS, out of the box. RADIUS support is thanks to Stuart Bishop, whose ZRadius product I plundered.

SMB does not require smb_pam or any other external modules to function, thanks to pySMB from Michael Teo. This should work for NT or UNIX users (or any platform that supports TCP/IP and Python).

These new authentication methods are early, and don't feature things such as credential caching as yet, but, we'd like to get some testing up on them first before we do that.

exUserFolder now support 6 methods of authentication in the basic download;

• smb
• RADIUS
• Postgresql
• ZODB
• File Based
• User Supplied (similar to GUF)

There are also three other authentication sources offered by 3rd parties.

exUserFolder currently supports attaching ad-hoc and formal attaching of properties to Users, and allows properties to be stored via postgresql, CMF or in the ZODB, with a generic SQL property source in the works.

Sources are easy to create. Anyone with some knowledge of python should be able to create their own Authentication Source in under an hour.

More information is currently available from Here.