[Xerte] Re: Xerte Online Toolkit v1.9 - LDAP settings for a Novell network

[Pat Lockley]

Since the auth change I don't have any ideas on how LDAP works to be honest
(and I have no LDAP of my own to test against, or remember how it works).

I would look in the PHP and see where they are used.


On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>wrote:

> Dave
> to be honest these were just notes I made when installing on a college
> server a while back. But a few thoughts/comments...
>
> Yes I think curly brackets could be used previously but I'm not sure if
> that
> has changed now that the settings are stored in a separate ldap table
>
> I don't know what knownname is for either. That column in the database is
> set to not allow nulls but I couldn't find where it is used. It didn't
> exist
> in the sitedetails table where ldap details were stored previously.
>
> The ldap code is now inside \library\Xerte\Authentication\Ldap.php so you
> might find some pointers there but I would try different settings via
> management.php before messing with that.
>
> If you have your moodle working with ldap the settings you use there should
> map directly to the xot ldap table. Alternatively you could always use
> moodle for authentication? That's detailed in the readme in the root of the
> zip.
>
> Perhaps Pat or David from the dev team might comment further.
>
> HTH
> Ron
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of David Perry
> Sent: 19 December 2012 16:15
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> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Xerte Online Toolkit v1.9 - LDAP settings for a Novell
> network
>
> Ron
>
> This is based on a clean install (the upgrade didn't completely work).
>
> Your example is interesting, thanks.
>
> We can't bind to a specific ou= because our users are scattered around them
> based on which physical site and department they are in, all we can say is
> 'they are somewhere within o=hull_coll'. My colleague remember having used
> a
> curly brackets notation previously to invoke sub-context searches, but not
> sure here if you can just say '{cn=}'.
>
> What does knownname mean? What should be there?
>
> And is your example for hooking up to an AD system? Does it search
> sub-contexts? If so we can try and get access to an AD server.
>
> And what's this sAMAccount name for in ldap_filter_attr?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
> David Perry
> eLearning Technologist, eLearning Team (L34 - Library) Hull College Group
> Wilberforce Drive, Queen's Gardens, Hull
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> Extension 2230 / Direct Dial 01482 381930
>
>
>
>
>
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> email?>>> "Ron Mitchell" <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk> 19/12/2012 15:58 >>>
> Did
> you upgrade or create a new install?
> If you upgraded run upgrade.php to transfer ldap details from the site
> details table to the ldap table.
> Then try different details via management.php with that open in one browser
> and testing login in a different browser.
> Check that the details are being stored in the ldap table.
>
> I don't know the specifics of Netware but the doc attached might help with
> the differences from 1.7 to 1.9.
>
> HTH
> Ron
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of David Perry
> Sent: 19 December 2012 15:32
> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> Subject: [Xerte] Xerte Online Toolkit v1.9 - LDAP settings for a Novell
> network
>
> Hi all
>
> Has anyone got a working set of LDAP settings for a Netware-based network?
> We've left the bind password blank as we don't authenticate to our LDAP
> servers, but not sure what to set the filter and other bind values for - we
> use cn for username, knownAs for the full name, dn for their location
> within
> the tree (e.g. cn=username,ou=admin,ou=site,o=hull-college) and have set
> the
> basedn to be o=hull_coll (the same as we do for moodle).
>
> This is for the latest version. The previous one we were running had the
> LDAP code hacked to ignore the database settings for it, but it doesn't
> look
> as straightforward to do this in the latest version.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
> David Perry
> eLearning Technologist, eLearning Team (L34 - Library) Hull College Group
> Wilberforce Drive, Queen's Gardens, Hull
> HU1 3DG
> Extension 2230 / Direct Dial 01482 381930
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>
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