I've decided to set up an Plone instance as an Intranet application for a client of mine who has an OSX Server based network setup. We're using OSX's OpenDirectory implementation of LDAP for authentication, with server-based Home-Directories (at least for the Mac users) as this particular client has a lot of temporary, project-based users, so there's quite a bit of fluctuation..

Well, I thought, hey, why not just hook up the plone instance (running on a FreeBSD machine) with the OSX Server machine?

Anyway, I downloaded and installed the LDAPUserFolder product (untar it into the Products folder, restart Zope, presto) and 10 minutes later I had thirty users on my plone site!

Now, whenever we add a new user on the OSX Server, he/she will automatically have access to the intranet site.

I wish everything in life would be that easy and useful ;-)