[Xerte-dev] Re: Fwd: Two LDAPs

Wed Nov 27 10:24:48 GMT 2013

Hi Everyone,

It's going to be very difficult to find an Institution to test this with
Active Directory, because not many Colleges are going to want the risk of
disrupting services, especially where they have got some sort of workaround.
The nearest to me is Easton College just outside Norwich where I know they
were having problems I will contact them and ask if they still have two
domains, and if so whether they would be prepared to test the fix, probably
on a temporary server. Please can someone let me have a download URL for a
version of XoT if you want me to pursue this.

The better alternative, in my view, is to follow up Ron's idea of getting a
test LDAP server, rather than a Windows domain server. Nottingham
University, as are all other .ac.uk domains are able to get a free server
hosted by JANET (virtually) by RM (physically). You have the choice of a
Linux or a Windows Server so I guess we'ld go for a LINUX one. Fire up the
LDAP server (I think it is either part of Apache or there is a 'plugin' for
this) and use this for testing. This is probably the easiest route if Julian
can persuade his IT department to apply to the JANET Help Desk for a Server
- in my experience it takes about two weeks before the whole thing is setup.

Kindest regards, Thomas

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 26 November 2013 15:18
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Fwd: Two LDAPs

Ah, a 2.2 branch already exists.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 26 November 2013 15:15
To: xerte at pgogywebstuff.com <mailto:xerte at pgogywebstuff.com> ; For Xerte
technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Fwd: Two LDAPs

I will create a 2.2 branch from develop and commit these files to it,

Thanks,

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[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat @ Pgogy
Sent: 26 November 2013 15:07
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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Fwd: Two LDAPs

I think adding this to library/xerte/authentication fixes it

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Julian Tenney
<Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk <mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> >
wrote:

Sounds like Thomas can help?

From: patrick.lockley at googlemail.com <mailto:patrick.lockley at googlemail.com>
[mailto:patrick.lockley at googlemail.com
<mailto:patrick.lockley at googlemail.com> ] On Behalf Of Pat @ Pgogy
Sent: 26 November 2013 13:59
To: Julian Tenney
Cc: xerte at pgogywebstuff.com <mailto:xerte at pgogywebstuff.com> ; For Xerte
technical developers
Subject: Re: [Xerte-dev] Re: Fwd: Two LDAPs

i assume it stopped working when the LDAP library was created

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Julian Tenney
<Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk <mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> >
wrote:

Did it work previously?

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
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Sent: 26 November 2013 12:00

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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Fwd: Two LDAPs

As far as I can tell at present, the 2.1 code as it won't work with more
than one LDAP, but I have no possibility of testing

(for ref spent ages yesterday fixing Adam Marjon's LDAP - mostly off list)

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 11:08 AM, <thomas.rochford at jiscadvance.ac.uk
<mailto:thomas.rochford at jiscadvance.ac.uk> > wrote:

Hi Pat,

Yes indeed. I've had big problems at Lowestoft college where they have three
LDAPS! One for  IT Staff, another for All other staff and the third for
students. Quite a few colleges have separate domains for staff and students
as well.

Kindest Regards,
Thomas
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Sent: Monday, 25 November 2013 15:57
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hello 

Is anyone auth'ing to two LDAPs?

I think I've found a bug, but need to test

Pat

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