topic Re: Missing ldap subsystem in community 5.1.e in Alfresco Archive

Missing ldap subsystem in community 5.1.e

mfriedel — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 08:46:56 GMT

I am not able to find the ldap subsystem as described in http://docs.alfresco.com/community/tasks/auth-subsystem-chain-config.htmlMy Authentication directory does not contain a ldap directory# ls -l tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/Authentication/drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 65

Re: Missing ldap subsystem in community 5.1.e

mrogers — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 18:06:00 GMT

I've just fed back to our docs team that that help page needs some rework. Sorry.

No you don't need to install anything separately.

You shouldn't need to worry about those files unless you are doing something complicated like multiple ldap authenticators.

What are you trying to do?

If you are doing something complicated then you add your configuration to the shared folder, you don't touch anything in the webapps folder.

Re: Missing ldap subsystem in community 5.1.e

mfriedel — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 10:09:46 GMT

Thank you.
I am not trying to set up anything complicated. Just a single ldap instance.
As per documentation I wanted to copy the files from the webapps folder as a template to the shared folders. But they where not in the distribution. I ended up retrieving them from the github. Worked just fine. I suggest the fix is not to change the documentation, but to add the files back to the community package.

Here is what I did in detail
1. Got the following files form gitbub
<blockcode>webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/Authentication/common-ldap-context.xml
webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/Authentication/ldap/ldap-authentication-context.xml
webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/Authentication/ldap/ldap-authentication.properties</blockcode>

2. Then I just followed the documentation to setup a single ldap instance by creating the following file

<blockcode>shared/classes/alfresco/extension/subsystems/Authentication/ldap/myldap/ldap-authentication.properties</blockcode>

and specifying the autorization chain in the /shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties file

<blockcode>
## Auth
authentication.chain=alfinst:alfrescoNtlm,myldap:ldap
ntlm.authentication.sso.enabled=false
</blockcode>