@soft_chomps@glitch.social @Gargron you've answered my first question, now: 𝘸𝘩𝘺
@boots @soft_chomps i imagine any orgs or pre-existing communities running mastodon would like to not have everyone sign up manually if they already have ldap
@Gargron @soft_chomps@glitch.social one condition:
do not push this to main repo, only add to main repo ways to extend login functionality easily and have the ldap plugin be on the wiki or something
@boots @soft_chomps that's more complicated, so why
@Gargron @soft_chomps@glitch.social because something that no more than like, 2-4 cloners will ever use shouldn't be in the main repo, in my opinion
@boots so is there some sort of better SSO system than ldap?
@Gargron @boots implementing a different SSO solution isn't even going to be the answer, because if X is on LDAP, then they aren't going to uplift their whole SSO to move to whatever Mastodon chose to implement. Which is why adding something like this to main is bad, because you'll end up w/ dozens of different specialized authentication methods polluting the main branch.
