On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Dobrica Pavlinusic <dpav...@rot13.org>wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 06:43:43PM +0530, Sai bhalaji Dhinakaran wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to configure Koha3.0 on Linux(Ubuntu) to use our LDAP server. > > I referred to the below link for configuration: > > > > http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:ldap&s > > > > Our LDAP server does not provide any field name for password and hence I > am not able to map in the koha_conf.xml file. > > Also, please let me know if there is any other file that I need to modify > to succeed in configuring for this. > > > > Can someone please help me in resolving this issue since I am unable to > understand the flow of this authentication process. > > We had similar problem, so we opted to implement following ugly patch: > > > http://koha-dev.rot13.org:8081/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=koha-ffzg.git;a=commitdiff;h=01bcd8bb8d84e85d29a0bb395757742cab06f102 > > (which I should really cleanup and submit at some point in future). > > Idea is simple: instead of having single administrative user which can > do LDAP compare to check password, we just bind as user who is trying to > login. Tricky part is rewrite of user lo...@domain.com into LDAP DN > syntax (uid=login,dc=domain,dc=com), but if this patten is o.k. for most > users (I hope). If it's not, please speak now! :-) > This functionality as already been submitted, with both aspects, including a configurable sprintf-style manipulation of the Koha userid into whatever you want to present LDAP with. See the "principle_name" section: http://lists.koha.org/pipermail/koha-patches/2009-June/003864.html There is a considerable backlog of patches right now, mostly owing to the annual ALA convention this past week. -- Joe Atzberger LibLime - Open Source Library Solutions
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