topic Re: alfresco ldap Integration in Alfresco Archive

alfresco ldap Integration

itsard — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:26:56 GMT

Hi all,I need to configure LDAP with alfresco labs 3.0My ldap-authentication.properties is like : # # This properties file brings together the common options for LDAP authentication rather than editing the bean definitions # # How to map the user id entered by the user to taht passed thr

Re: alfresco ldap Integration

dward — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:58:46 GMT

The problem is that the default CIFS authenticator is not compatible with the LDAP authentication component.

A lot of progress has been made in this area in v3.2 and now your CIFS authentication settings are deterined automatically from your choice of authentication subsystem(s).

In v3.0 I'm afraid you're going to have to add this bean definition to custom-repository-context.xml.


   <bean id="fileServersConfigService" class="org.alfresco.config.xml.XMLConfigService" init-method="init">
      <constructor-arg>
         <ref bean="fileServersConfigSource" />
      </constructor-arg>
      <property name="properties">
         <list>
           <value>classpath:alfresco/file-servers.properties</value>
           <value>classpath:alfresco/extension/custom-file-servers.properties</value>
         </list>
      </property>
   </bean>
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and then add these settings to $TOMCAT_HOME/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/custom-file-servers.properties

cifs.enabled=false
ftp.enabled=false

In v3.2 cifs.enabled and ftp.enabled are directly controllable in alfresco-global.properties without all this messing around. Plus you wouldn't even need to change them because the CIFS server is automatically disabled if there is no compatible authenticator for it. Why not use labs 3.2?

Re: alfresco ldap Integration

itsard — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:21:18 GMT

Thanks for ur reply.
I wish to know whats CFIS server and how does alfresco use it.
If its not configured what are the functionalities that cant be used.

Thanks

Re: alfresco ldap Integration

dward — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:47:44 GMT

The CIFS server allows you to mount the alfresco repository as a network drive and navigate and manipulate its contents like any other filesystem on your computer.

See http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/File_Server_Subsystem#Introduction

Re: alfresco ldap Integration

cheffilet — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:31:46 GMT

But if you want to use AD with Cifs you have to set up PASSTHROUGH-Authentication due to CIFS provides a MD4-Pass where an AD stores a MD5-hash of the password. So you have to "marshall" you md4 pass into a NTLM-protocoll to get authenticated against a domain-controller.