I have made a change to the blogs server (which i will call UQLBlogs from now on) which shouldn’t effect anyone except that when logging in, the UQLBlogs checks your password from the UQ username / password server instead of storing them. This means if you change your UQ password, UQLBlogs will recognise the change.

If you are not using a UQ username, the UQLBlogs will use whatever you registered with. UQLBlogs still tries to email you a password when you register but you should ignore it for UQ usernames and use your UQ password.

For the nerds out there: To accomplish this task, I downloaded an LDAP plugin from Pat Cavit / Zilla Smash and basically had to rewrite it to work with lyceum and UQ’s LDAP setup. The result is highly specific to UQ but I can share the results if anyone really feels the need. It involves a small hack here and there to the lyceum code too.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 24th, 2006 at 3:06 pm by Matthew Smith and is filed under Lyceum. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.