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Old 12-08-2007, 02:51 AM   #1
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Secure document management server


Hi,

Anyone aware of a secure document storage solution which can manage document access based on ldap group membership? I was loooking at adding some sort of view access protection plugin to a mediawiki, but they all are extremely keen to point out that they are essentially hacks, and it's not designed for restricting view access, and as i'm looking for someone where to store enterprise router passwords...
 
Old 12-08-2007, 03:48 AM   #2
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Dumb question. When a person logs into the wiki, is the web server instance running as that user?
Is nsswitch involved, or could it be? Or can you just use libnss_ldap for logging in?

If so couldn't you put an "ldap" entry in the /etc/nsswitch.conf's "group " line and then use facl's to control group access to the files themselves.

Code:
passwd: files ldap

group:  files ldap

shadow: files ldap
http://www.linux.ru/docs/english/ldp...O/pamnss.phtml

Sorry if this is way off base and I'm out of line.

Or how about using an apache ldap module.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/m...thnz_ldap.html
And then locating these files in their own directory.

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Old 12-08-2007, 06:40 AM   #3
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thanks, but it's issues with the user and group management within mediawiki which prevent me using it, not the apache instance it's running under. need things like anonymous access can read this dynamic page, logged in users can read another, users in a certain group can read a third. mediawiki would need to handle all that itself. I could easily just stick it on our active directory based shared file systems, but it'd be advantageous to have a fairly simple dedicated secure document store closely linked to the wiki.

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Old 12-08-2007, 07:57 AM   #4
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I love the way the forums always seem to have related threads on the new post page! http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...e-tree-605304/ - I know naff all about these things, but does knowledge Tree do what you need? It can use LDAP and seems to tick the rest of the boxes too.
 
Old 12-09-2007, 02:49 AM   #5
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wow, how guilty am i?
 
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Sheer coincidence and even sheerer that I remembered glancing over it!
 
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hasn't actually helped though... looks like i either change wiki, probably to dokuwiki which has much better enterprise features it seems, or just stick with generic windows shares for confidential data.
 
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If you're mostly a Windows shop (assumption being made), what about Sharepoint? Obviously, it's very expensive, but it works.
 
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no, it's expensive and a sack of shite...
 
  


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