[Xerte] Configuration of LDAP authentication and the login_library.php file

[Johnathan Kemp]

Hello Xerte Team,
 
I now have a Xerte On-line Toolkits site that I can log on to using
LDAP, but I had some fun getting it set up and would like to clarify a
couple of things.
 
In the site setup I have set up a single ldap host, however I would like
to have three, would the correct syntax be
 
999.999.999.999\n999.999.999.999\n999.999.999.999 
 
for this, using the \n as a separator of the IP addresses, rather than a
";" ?
 
Is it possible to specify more than one ldap base and if so would it be
correct to use "\n" as the separator between bases?
 
Is there somewhere in the setup that is intended to specify the LDAP
field that will be used in the login process, so that when a username is
entered in the login form it is matched to the correct LDAP field when
checking the user name and password against LDAP? I set "The first LDAP
filter is" box to sAMAccountName but found that the login_library.php
file was using the "dn" field to match against. It was only after
working my way back through the Xerte code that I found out why I could
not log on. I had to edit lines 48 and 171 of login_library.php to use
sAMAccountName rather than dn. Similarly lines 8 and 131 refer to
"givenname" whereas our LDAP field is "givenName" so I had to edit these
as well.
 
I have to admit I am not sure what your intended use is for the fields
in the set up "The first LDAP filter" and "The second LDAP filter".
 
How practical would it be to include in the LDAP set up fields for the
LDAP values that will be
a) matched to the user id entered at login
b) used to gather the user first name
c) used to gather the user last name
 
So that discrepancies between different systems can be accommodated
without the need to edit code?
 
Or have I misunderstood something?
 
Kind regards
 
Johnathan

Johnathan Kemp
IT Dev. Manager
Connexions Staffordshire
www.cxstaffs.co.uk <http://www.cxstaffs.co.uk/> 
01785 355714


 

 
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