Super! Thank you.

(P.S. I am not using Moodle, but the first link should be most useful).



On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 10:46 PM Maxim Solodovnik <solomax...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> The installation is the same
>
> you need to implement REST/SOAP integration
> https://openmeetings.apache.org/RestAPISample.html
>
> There is for ex. OM Moodle plugin:
> https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_openmeetings
>
> On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 at 10:41, Robert Savickas <robsavic...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Maxim,
>>
>> Thank you very much. I primarily use OM for meetings only. So, the first
>> option might be the easiest.
>>
>> I do not know how to set up OM for meetings only, but I will search
>> around and experiment till I figure it out.
>>
>> So far, I have been following Alvaro's excellent OM set up guides *to the
>> letter* in order to install OM on the different servers. I guess, the
>> installation process will be slightly different, if I install OM
>> for meetings-use only.  I will hack around and try to figure it out (or, if
>> you, Alvaro, or other members of this group have several hints, those hints
>> would be entirely appreciated).
>>
>> Thank you!
>> Robert.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 10:30 PM Maxim Solodovnik <solomax...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Robert,
>>>
>>> OM stores encrypted passwords
>>> I know no ways to decrypt them
>>>
>>> for your use case I see a couple of doable ways to proceed:
>>> 1) set up OM for meetings only.
>>>     This way your users will be stored in your "other" system, users
>>> will use OM via one time hashes (no passwords should be entered).
>>>     This way other areas of OM (for ex. Calendar, dashboard) will be
>>> inaccessible
>>> 2) implement your own hashing function
>>> https://openmeetings.apache.org/CustomCryptMechanism.html
>>>     here is an example https://github.com/openmeetings/custom-crypt
>>>     this might be less secure
>>> 2*) you can add code store users in both databases (might be more
>>> complicated)
>>> 3) you can set-up LDAP to store credentials
>>>
>>> maybe some other options are available :)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 at 10:05, Robert Savickas <robsavic...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear Maxim,
>>>>
>>>> I am using OM for online meetings, and I am using another system for
>>>> administering other aspects of the services. On both systems, the users are
>>>> stored in Mysql databases, and I have studied the structure of OM user data
>>>> bases and also those of the other system.
>>>>
>>>> For each of the areas that I manage, the same set of users utilize OM
>>>> and the other system.  So, I need to be able to move them from one system
>>>> to the other.
>>>>
>>>> I have written a script to copy users from the other system and place
>>>> them correctly into the OM user database. All works very well.
>>>>
>>>> The only problem are the passwords. They are encrypted both on OM and
>>>> on the other system. And the encryptions are not the same. The encrypted
>>>> string on OM is much longer than that on the other system, for the same
>>>> password.
>>>>
>>>> Would you be able to offer some pointers or readings that I can use to
>>>> learn how to correctly move the encrypted passwords from the other system
>>>> to OM?
>>>>
>>>> My goal is that the users use the same password for both systems, so
>>>> that I minimize the amount of complaining about having to set two different
>>>> passwords for what the users view as one integrated system.
>>>>
>>>> Any insights and pointers would be very much appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you.
>>>> Robert.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Best regards,
>>> Maxim
>>>
>>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Maxim
>

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