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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks, I’m not the right person here to act on that, but thanks for the info,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Knight-Markiegi, Tom<br><b>Sent:</b> 09 August 2013 13:07<br><b>To:</b> 'xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk'<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Problem with LDAP login with no bind password<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I found a problem with logging in using LDAP using Xerte 2.0 (svn r1068) when there is no LDAP bind password.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We have this setup:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>mysql> select ldap_username, ldap_password, ldap_filter, ldap_filter_attr from ldap;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>+---------------+---------------+------------------------------+------------------+<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>| ldap_username | ldap_password | ldap_filter | ldap_filter_attr |<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>+---------------+---------------+------------------------------+------------------+<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>| | | (eduPersonAffiliation=staff) | cn | <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>+---------------+---------------+------------------------------+------------------+<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>1 row in set (0.00 sec)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This ensures that only staff can log in.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The problem is that the code in library/Xerte/Authentication/Ldap.php was trying to use <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>ldap_filter </span>for anonymous binding and searching when no bind password is used. The attached patch is how I got round this problem at our institution. Something similar may be needed in the block that does use a bind password if the secondary filter should be used for searching.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tom<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>-- <br>Tom Knight-Markiegi - Systems Support Team Leader<br>Web & Learning Environments | Corporate Systems | Information Systems and Technology<br>Student and Learning Services | Sheffield Hallam University</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>