topic LDAP configuration in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ldap-configuration/m-p/31668#M16372 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have two problems with Alfresco <img id="smileysad" class="emoticon emoticon-smileysad" src="https://connect.hyland.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-sad.png" alt="Smiley Sad" title="Smiley Sad" /></SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Can you help me ?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>1?)&nbsp; I configured successfully Alfresco (1.2.1 version on Linux) to use LDAP simple authentication.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Code :</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="userNameFormat"&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;value&gt;uid=%s,ou=people,dc=xxxx,dc=fr&lt;/value&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/property&gt;</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;entry key="java.naming.provider.url"&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;value&gt;ldap://xxxx.xxxx.fr:389/&lt;/value&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/entry&gt;</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Now I want to authentify user with user id = ldap attribute xxxxLogin (not uid)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>You can see my LDAP entry as following :</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; dn: uid=fsain00C,ou=people,dc=xxxx,dc=fr</SPAN><BR /><SPAN><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; mail: </SPAN><A class="jive-link-email-small" href="mailto:Frederic.xxxx@xxxx.fr" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Frederic.xxxx@xxxx.fr</A></SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; objectClass: top</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; objectClass: person</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; objectClass: organizationalPerson</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; objectClass: inetOrgPerson</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; objectClass: xxxxPerson</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; cn: xxxx Frederic</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; sn: xxxx</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; xxxxLogin: fsaintma</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; givenName: Frederic</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; uid: fsain00C</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>So I see JDNI documentation and I want to specify a LDAP URL with a filter :</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;entry key="java.naming.provider.url"&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;value&gt;ldap://xxxx.xxxx.fr:389/ou=people,dc=xxxx,dc=fr?xxxxLogin&lt;/value&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/entry&gt;</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have the following error in the Alfresco web :</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; javax.faces.FacesException: Error calling action method of component with id loginForm:submit</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; caused by:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; javax.faces.el.EvaluationException: Exception while invoking expression #{LoginBean.login}</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; caused by:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; java.lang.NullPointerException</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>2?)&nbsp; When I activate the ldap authentification, the local user database is unavailable. For example, I can't login with</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>account admin/admin. Can I have at the same time LDAP user database and local user database ?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 16 May 2006 14:41:51 GMT fsaintma 2006-05-16T14:41:51Z LDAP configuration https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ldap-configuration/m-p/31668#M16372 I have two problems with Alfresco <IMG id="smileysad" class="emoticon emoticon-smileysad" src="https://migration33.stage.lithium.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-sad.png" alt="Smiley Sad" title="Smiley Sad" />Can you help me ?1?)&nbsp; I configured successfully Alfresco (1.2.1 version on Linux) to use LDAP simple authentication.Code :&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="userNameFormat"&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;value&gt;uid=%s,ou=people,dc=xxxx,dc=fr&lt;/value&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/property&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;entr Tue, 16 May 2006 14:41:51 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ldap-configuration/m-p/31668#M16372 fsaintma 2006-05-16T14:41:51Z Re: LDAP configuration https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ldap-configuration/m-p/31669#M16373 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I don't think you can specify the filter in this way.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Your magic id has to be in the DN or you can not use simple authentication.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>OpenLDAP could be configured to use digest-md5 authentication using any attribute to find the user.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>You can have more than one authentication system in version 1.3.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Regards</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Andy</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:55:47 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ldap-configuration/m-p/31669#M16373 andy 2006-07-14T10:55:47Z