[Xerte] Re: LDAP [Scanned]

Pat Lockley patrick.lockley at googlemail.com
Wed May 25 21:06:33 BST 2011 

I'd check that login old is actually logging you in, it may not care what password you send

On 25 May 2011, at 20:55, "Ron Mitchell" <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk> wrote:

> OK before any responses I now have LDAP working on this install up to a
> point which may help others...
> 
> 1. I noticed than in \website_code\php there was a file named
> OLDlogin_library.php so I tried using that instead and LDAP works without
> any other changes!
> 
> 2. However it seems to be getting the username correctly but not the first
> name and last name or at least not adding the latter to the logindetails
> table. 
> 
> So I'll carry on trying to resolve this but any ideas gratefully received
> ;-)
> 
> Cheers
> Ron
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
> Sent: 25 May 2011 20:24
> To: 'Xerte discussion list'
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: LDAP [Scanned]
> 
> Hi Ray/Pat
> did you resolve this?
> 
> I've been trying to get ldap working with an install on Windows with Apache
> and ldap is working for moodle and mahara on the same server but XOT won't
> play ball. I tracked back through the various threads and tried all the
> things I've done successfully on other installs so have been trying the
> login_top and testldap.php files Pat attached to this thread.
> 
> I get similar results to those reported by Ray below but not the search
> failure. e.g.
> 
> IN VALID LOGIN
> SINGLE HOST
> AUTHENTICATION STARTING
> AUTHENTICATION FUNCTION STARTS
> LDAP CONNECTED
> DS IS - Resource id #8
> BASEDN IS - OU=etc etc (deleted for security)
> FILTER IS - sAMAccountName=rmitchell
> 
> SEARCH ATTRIBUTES - Array
> (
>    [firstname] => givenname
>    [lastname] => sn
> )
> AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE
> 
> I don't get a success message and the trouble is if I restore the original
> files and try to login I just get the username or password is incorrect
> message which it's definitely not.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Cheers
> Ron
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ray Reeves
> Sent: 11 March 2011 12:22
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: LDAP [Scanned]
> 
> Created a new ou and user and still get the same returned message.
> 
> What am i supposed to be seeing in the message?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick
> Lockley
> Sent: 11 March 2011 12:02
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: LDAP [Scanned]
> 
> Not seeing quotes in the output?
> 
> Do you have another OU you could use?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ray Reeves
> Sent: 11 March 2011 11:58
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> Subject: [Xerte] Re: LDAP [Scanned]
> 
> Still the same with quotes
> IN VALID LOGIN
> SINGLE HOST
> AUTHENTICATION STARTING
> AUTHENTICATION FUNCTION STARTS
> LDAP CONNECTED
> DS IS - Resource id #7
> BASEDN IS - "OU=college staff users,DC=solihull,DC=ac,DC=uk"
> FILTER IS - sAMAccountName=rayr
> 
> SEARCH ATTRIBUTES - Array
> (
>    [firstname] => givenname
>    [lastname] => sn
> )
> SEARCH FAILUREAUTHENTICATION COMPLETE
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick
> Lockley
> Sent: 11 March 2011 11:50
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> Subject: [Xerte] Re: LDAP [Scanned]
> 
> Can you have a space in an OU name?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ray Reeves
> Sent: 11 March 2011 11:49
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: LDAP [Scanned]
> 
> Got this after replacing the code
> 
> IN VALID LOGIN
> SINGLE HOST
> AUTHENTICATION STARTING
> AUTHENTICATION FUNCTION STARTS
> LDAP CONNECTED
> DS IS - Resource id #7
> BASEDN IS - OU=college staff users,DC=solihull,DC=ac,DC=uk
> FILTER IS - sAMAccountName=rayr
> 
> SEARCH ATTRIBUTES - Array
> (
>    [firstname] => givenname
>    [lastname] => sn
> )
> SEARCH FAILUREAUTHENTICATION COMPLETE
> 
> Ray
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick
> Lockley
> Sent: 11 March 2011 11:21
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> Subject: [Xerte] Re: LDAP [Scanned]
> 
> Try this one now
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ray Reeves
> Sent: 11 March 2011 11:19
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> Subject: [Xerte] Re: LDAP [Scanned]
> 
> Thanks for that Patrick, here is what i got,
> 
> IN VALID LOGIN
> SINGLE HOST
> AUTHENTICATION STARTING
> AUTHENTICATION FUNCTION STARTS
> LDAP CONNECTED
> SEARCH FAILURE
> AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE
> 
> Ray
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick
> Lockley
> Sent: 11 March 2011 11:10
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> Subject: [Xerte] Re: LDAP [Scanned]
> 
> Rename website_code/login_top to back up something
> 
> Then put login_top (attached) into website_code
> 
> And testldap.php into the root folder
> 
> Then go back to index.php and try logging in.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ray Reeves
> Sent: 11 March 2011 10:56
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> Subject: [Xerte] Re: LDAP [Scanned]
> 
> Did a check and disabled firewall temporarily on the server and still
> got the same issue.  Im now trying to see if i've missed something in
> the install or configuration of the php's.
> 
> I ran a vbs script to check ldap was working to see if i could get
> anything back:
> 
> Const ADS_PROPERTY_CLEAR = 1
> Set objUser = GetObject("LDAP://cn=Ray Reeves,OU=Network
> Team,DC=solihull,DC=ac,DC=uk")
> objUser.GetInfo
> Wscript.echo objUser.Get("CN")
> 
> And this returned my name, so i know i can communicate with LDAP and to
> our DC's.
> 
> Obviously the test (switch.txt > index.php) worked fine, is there
> anything in the index.php that should be edited that anyone can think of
> to point to ldap.  I have tried various changes in the management.php
> with bind and base, with no success.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Ray
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Rochford,
> Thomas
> Sent: 11 March 2011 09:55
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: LDAP [Scanned]
> 
> It may be that the firewall is blocking you. Active Directory's LDAP
> interface is disabled by default and your institution may have blocked
> port
> 389 and port 636 as a security measure. If LDAP is available is can be
> used to gain access to personal email addresses etc., which is why it is
> blocked or disabled. I've seen this cause problems with Shibboleth, too.
> 
> If you're using a local LDAP directory with IIS, do you know who
> provides it?
> 
> Regards,
> Thomas Rochford
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick
> Lockley
> Sent: 11 March 2011 9:19 AM
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: LDAP [Scanned]
> 
> Special chars in the password?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ray Reeves
> Sent: 11 March 2011 09:18
> To: n.friend at cant-col.ac.uk; Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: LDAP [Scanned]
> 
> I should have stated before, i'm using a windows iis install, with php
> 5.3.5 installed.  After going to the PhP website and checking what they
> have for LDAP error:
> 
> (path, editing php.ini, location of dll's)
> 
> I found that all to be ok.  I can't authenticate and get no white
> screen, just a message stating my username and password are incorrect.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of
> n.friend at cant-col.ac.uk
> Sent: 11 March 2011 09:04
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> Subject: [Xerte] Re: LDAP [Scanned]
> 
> Hi Ray
> Do you have the php-LDAP extension installed?  Check your apache error
> log to see where it's failing.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Nathan.
> Sent from my BlackBerry(r) wireless device
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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