[Xerte] LDAP

RonM ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk
Wed Oct 20 16:22:04 BST 2010


I think we all missed that page in the manual! ;-)
Given that it's easiest for people to do this via management.php can you provide an anonymised example?

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On 20 Oct 2010, at 15:49, Patrick Lockley <Patrick.Lockley at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> You need to do it for each ldap value in the database.
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> It clearly says this on page 2381238283823 of the manual
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> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Adam Read
> Sent: 20 October 2010 15:49
> To: 'Xerte discussion list'
> Subject: RE: [Xerte] LDAP
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> We’ve tried:
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> LDAP Base -
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> OU=Staff,DC=net,DC=marjon,DC=ac,DC=uk$$$OU=Students,DC=net,DC=marjon,DC=ac,DC=uk
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> Login then fails?
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> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick Lockley
> Sent: 20 October 2010 15:46
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> Subject: RE: [Xerte] LDAP
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> Ok, use $$$ to separate entries in each LDAP section
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> That should work for you
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> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Adam Read
> Sent: 20 October 2010 15:41
> To: 'Xerte discussion list'
> Subject: RE: [Xerte] LDAP
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> According to our CS team – yes it does (although they don’t use the root as it contains stuff that shouldn’t go into Moodle).
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> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick Lockley
> Sent: 20 October 2010 15:33
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> Subject: RE: [Xerte] LDAP
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> Does Moodle let you?
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> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Adam Read
> Sent: 20 October 2010 15:33
> To: 'Xerte discussion list'
> Subject: RE: [Xerte] LDAP
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> Doesn’t let people login using LDAP account with base set to DC=net,DC=marjon,DC=ac,DC=uk
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> only works with OU=Staff,DC=net,DC=marjon,DC=ac,DC=uk
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> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick Lockley
> Sent: 20 October 2010 15:23
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> Subject: RE: [Xerte] LDAP
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> Define doesn’t like for me please?
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> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Adam Read
> Sent: 20 October 2010 15:23
> To: 'Xerte discussion list'
> Subject: RE: [Xerte] LDAP
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> Thanks for comments. We’ve tried using semi-colons to separate the strings out – which consequently we use for our Moodle but Xerte doesn’t seem to like it.
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> ‘Staff’ and ‘Student’ OUs are the highest level we can use – one level up is the route which Xerte never liked last year.
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> Might have to bite the bullet and set up a second XOT afterall…
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> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick Lockley
> Sent: 20 October 2010 15:06
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: RE: [Xerte] LDAP
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> XOT supports multiple LDAPs if it needs to.
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> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
> Sent: 20 October 2010 14:52
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> Subject: RE: [Xerte] LDAP
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> I seem to recall at my old college we got round a similar problem by pointing to the global catalogue.
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> If all else fails you could always use a second install just for students.
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> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Adam Read
> Sent: 20 October 2010 14:19
> To: Xerte discussion list (xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk)
> Subject: [Xerte] LDAP
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> Hi
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> We’ve been running XOT on IIS for a while now. Staff have happily been using the system. I am planning on rolling out XOT further as some of our students are going to create Learning Objects for assessment.
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> The only problem with our XOT install is that we are pointing our LDAP base at a “staff” OU. Students are in a separate OU (“students”). Is there any way to specify multiple OUs in the LDAP base script?
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> Any help gratefully received
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> Adam
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> University College Plymouth St Mark & St John is a registered charity the trustee 
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> University College Plymouth St Mark & St John,  Derriford Road, Plymouth, PL6 8BH 
>             Phone:  01752 636700     Web:  www.ucpmarjon.ac.uk 
>  Principal: Professor Margaret Noble A Church of England College Founded in 1840
> University College Plymouth St Mark & St John is a registered charity the trustee 
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