Group Assignment

LDAP groups are a mechanism for assigning privileges in TRAC and SVN, as well as mappings to the basic ZopeRoles, as part of the Pleiades SingleSignOn mechanism.

Group membership of Pleiades users is managed through:

Note: do not confuse these groups with Plone roles, which are managed through Plone itself.

Groups used by the Pleiades project

LDAP groups defined for Pleiades can be viewed via the groups tab on the ldap_plugin in the ZMI?.

At last check, the defined groups there were:

  • Member (may be deleted)
  • Committer
  • Admin

Step-by-step: adding a user to LDAP groups

  1. Login to plone as a user with Admin privileges.
  2. Direct browser to acl_users/manage_main (in the ZMI)
  3. Select the users tab.
  4. In the form on the first row, leave the fields blank and click Search'''
  5. This returns a table listing all the defined users.
  6. Follow the hyperlink in the record of interest (in the distinguished name column)
  7. The form on the second line of the resulting page enables modification of group membership for that user