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Missing folders and files in 5.0a?

entropicsinkhol — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 20:31:56 GMT

I have a clean install of 5.0a on MS Server 2012. I went to set up my ldap settings, but I am missing a bunch of folders, specifically repository.properties and the ldap subsystem folders under C:\Alfresco\tomcat\webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\subsystems\Authentication. I copied the sam

Re: Missing folders and files in 5.0a?

mrogers — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 21:26:30 GMT

Your alfresco-global.properties looks o.k. However you should not have configured alfresco via hacking files under web-inf any configuration should be in the shared folder. You need to configure alfresco correctly.

So what else have you configured?

Re: Missing folders and files in 5.0a?

entropicsinkhol — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:11:00 GMT

Right now, I have only done two things beyond the initial install (port numbers are all +1 the original numbers, because another service uses 8080 in case that is somehow important).

1) Copy/pasted my old repository.properties file and the ldap and ldap-ad folders and their contents from the old install to the new install. These files and folders did not exist before I copied them over (do they get created automatically or are we supposed to make them ourselves?) This worked in my old install and, at the time, I wasn't able to get it to work any other way (it was set up a while ago, so I can't remember why)

2) When that didn't work I removed those files and tried to configure it using the alfresco-global.properties file. I'm wondering whether that file is looking for other folders/files that are missing. Documentation was unclear on whether there were dependencies

Restarted service in between any changes.

Also, I have reinstalled Alfresco multiple times just to rule out something I missed during installation.

Re: Missing folders and files in 5.0a?

entropicsinkhol — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 13:39:33 GMT

Well, it works. The Alfresco service was not fully stopping/restarting I guess, because this morning I just stopped then restarted it and it worked.

Re: Missing folders and files in 5.0a?

lw3234 — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 17:47:58 GMT

Hello,

I got the same issue than entropicsinkhole.

I recently did a clean install of Alfresco 5.0a (Community Edition) on a Windows Server 2008 R2 OS and no ldap related folders nor the repository.properties are present there. Since it is a test environment I have no previous folders to copy and fill in like entropicsinkhole.

Is there any specific reason why the folders are not there ? How to configure ldap/active directory now ?

Cheers,
Ludwig

Under C:\Alfresco\tomcat\webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\subsystems\Authentication. there is

Re: Missing folders and files in 5.0a?

maccer — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 17:27:00 GMT

i have 2 issues, 1. im at nube at this, 2. I have no ldap folders either. I'm using Alfresco-5.0.c(Community) on linux. has anyone got a any ideas. is it something i left out during install??? dependencies??? i was following this guide http://docs.alfresco.com/5.0/tasks/auth-example-oneldap-ad.html it is for a connection for 1 Ldap, I went looking for why this wasnt working. I saw this guide http://docs.alfresco.com/5.0/tasks/auth-example-twoldap-ad.html about 2 ldap connections and saw that it copys a properties file for ldap into 2 new folders for ldap connections, But the folders with the properties file are missing. Am i right to think that these folders are used by default in the first guide i was using. Help
Cheers

Re: Missing folders and files in 5.0a?

eswbitto — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 18:09:15 GMT

@Maccer

What are you trying to accomplish?

Re: Missing folders and files in 5.0a?

maccer — Sat, 13 Dec 2014 13:38:00 GMT

Im just trying to connect alfresco to active directory. A lot of stuff i come across when searching the intertubes keep talking about the \ldap-ad\ folder in WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\subsystems\
Authentication\ for connecting to 2 active directorys, i wanted to have a look at it to compare settings because im only connecting to 1, but its missing. so i presumed i just used the alfresco-global.properties to add the ldap settings but that didnt work when i checked the alfresco.log i dont see anything in it got to do with ldap?? Cheers for reply

Re: Missing folders and files in 5.0a?

eswbitto — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 20:18:39 GMT

@maccer,

Sorry I have been on holiday. So here is the layout of what you should have in your alfresco-global.properties file.


### Authentication Chain for LDAP ###
authentication.chain=ldap-ad1:ldap-ad,alfrescoNtlm1:alfrescoNtlm


### Active Directory Config ###

# This flag enables use of this LDAP subsystem for authentication. It may be
# that this subsytem should only be used for synchronization, in which case
# this flag should be set to false.
ldap.authentication.active=true

#
# This properties file brings together the common options for LDAP authentication rather than editing the bean definitions
#
ldap.authentication.allowGuestLogin=true

# How to map the user id entered by the user to taht passed through to LDAP
# In Active Directory, this can either be the user principal name (UPN) or DN.
# UPNs are in the form <sAMAccountName>@domain and are held in the userPrincipalName attribute of a user
ldap.authentication.userNameFormat=%s@domain

# The LDAP context factory to use
ldap.authentication.java.naming.factory.initial=com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory

# The URL to connect to the LDAP server 
ldap.authentication.java.naming.provider.url=ldap://domaincontroller.company.com:389

# The authentication mechanism to use for password validation
ldap.authentication.java.naming.security.authentication=simple

# Escape commas entered by the user at bind time
# Useful when using simple authentication and the CN is part of the DN and contains commas
ldap.authentication.escapeCommasInBind=false

# Escape commas entered by the user when setting the authenticated user
# Useful when using simple authentication and the CN is part of the DN and contains commas, and the escaped \, is 
# pulled in as part of an LDAP sync
# If this option is set to true it will break the default home folder provider as space names can not contain \
ldap.authentication.escapeCommasInUid=false

# Comma separated list of user names who should be considered administrators by default
ldap.authentication.defaultAdministratorUserNames=Administrator

# This flag enables use of this LDAP subsystem for user and group
# synchronization. It may be that this subsytem should only be used for 
# authentication, in which case this flag should be set to false.
ldap.synchronization.active=true

# The authentication mechanism to use for synchronization
ldap.synchronization.java.naming.security.authentication=simple

# The default principal to bind with (only used for LDAP sync). This should be a UPN or DN
ldap.synchronization.java.naming.security.principal=alfresco@domain

# The password for the default principal (only used for LDAP sync)
ldap.synchronization.java.naming.security.credentials=password

# If positive, this property indicates that RFC 2696 paged results should be
# used to split query results into batches of the specified size. This
# overcomes any size limits imposed by the LDAP server.
ldap.synchronization.queryBatchSize=1000

# If positive, this property indicates that range retrieval should be used to fetch
# multi-valued attributes (such as member) in batches of the specified size.
# Overcomes any size limits imposed by Active Directory.        
ldap.synchronization.attributeBatchSize=1000

# The query to select all objects that represent the groups to import.
ldap.synchronization.groupQuery=(objectclass\=group)

# The query to select objects that represent the groups to import that have changed since a certain time.
ldap.synchronization.groupDifferentialQuery=(&(objectclass\=group)(!(whenChanged<\={0})))

# The query to select all objects that represent the users to import.
ldap.synchronization.personQuery=(&(objectclass\=user)(userAccountControl\:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803\:\=512))

# The query to select objects that represent the users to import that have changed since a certain time.
ldap.synchronization.personDifferentialQuery=(&(objectclass\=user)(userAccountControl\:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803\:\=512)(!(whenChanged<\={0})))

# The group search base restricts the LDAP group query to a sub section of tree on the LDAP server.
ldap.synchronization.groupSearchBase=ou\=Security Groups,ou\=Alfresco,dc=domain

# The user search base restricts the LDAP user query to a sub section of tree on the LDAP server.
ldap.synchronization.userSearchBase=ou\=User Accounts,ou=\Alfresco,dc=domain

# The name of the operational attribute recording the last update time for a group or user.
ldap.synchronization.modifyTimestampAttributeName=whenChanged

# The timestamp format. Unfortunately, this varies between directory servers.
ldap.synchronization.timestampFormat=yyyyMMddHHmmss'.0Z'

# The attribute name on people objects found in LDAP to use as the uid in Alfresco
ldap.synchronization.userIdAttributeName=sAMAccountName

# The attribute on person objects in LDAP to map to the first name property in Alfresco
ldap.synchronization.userFirstNameAttributeName=givenName

# The attribute on person objects in LDAP to map to the last name property in Alfresco
ldap.synchronization.userLastNameAttributeName=sn

# The attribute on person objects in LDAP to map to the email property in Alfresco
ldap.synchronization.userEmailAttributeName=mail

# The attribute on person objects in LDAP to map to the organizational id  property in Alfresco
ldap.synchronization.userOrganizationalIdAttributeName=company

# The default home folder provider to use for people created via LDAP import
ldap.synchronization.defaultHomeFolderProvider=largeHomeFolderProvider

# The attribute on LDAP group objects to map to the authority name property in Alfresco
ldap.synchronization.groupIdAttributeName=cn

# The attribute on LDAP group objects to map to the authority display name property in Alfresco
ldap.synchronization.groupDisplayNameAttributeName=displayName

# The group type in LDAP
ldap.synchronization.groupType=group

# The person type in LDAP
ldap.synchronization.personType=user

# The attribute in LDAP on group objects that defines the DN for its members
ldap.synchronization.groupMemberAttributeName=member

# If true progress estimation is enabled. When enabled, the user query has to be run twice in order to count entries.
ldap.synchronization.enableProgressEstimation=true

# Requests timeout, in miliseconds, use 0 for none (default)
ldap.authentication.java.naming.read.timeout=0
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You will need to take a look at each line and determine what needs to be changed. This is the generic setup. Once you have it all configured then you start or restart your alfresco service and then you should be able to see logs pertaining to this subsystem. It will tell you whether or not the sync was successful. That is where you can troubleshoot.

Re: Missing folders and files in 5.0a?

cibex — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 09:25:00 GMT

@mrogers: can you also answer the essential question, please:
Where are all the default configuration files for ldap?
In <tomcat>/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/Authentication I can only find:
alfrescoNtlm
external
kerberos
passthru
Folders for ldap are missing.

Documentation in 5.0.x is still the same, so this behavior is not clear to me.

Configuration via alfresco-global.properties is working fine, via subsystems in <tomcat>/shared/classes/alfresco/subsystems/Authentication/ldap-ad/ldap-ad1 not.

What is your recommendation how to configure two subsystems for AD in 5.0.x?

kr
Josef

Re: Missing folders and files in 5.0a?

cibex — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 07:26:18 GMT

Are we talking about this issue: https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ACE-2133
We are using 5.0.c (CE) and it seems not be fixed.
I have configured LDAP properties in alfresco-global.properties. Authentication works, synchonization not (givenNamen, sn, and mail are synchronized, all other attributes are missing).
Where can we configure additional attributes to be synced (former custom-ldap-context.xml)?
Thank you!

Re: Missing folders and files in 5.0a?

raurelian — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 09:59:47 GMT

Please note the original issue described: there are missing files and folders related to the default LDAP configuration which need to be copied but cannot be found. For example, the official Alfresco Community 5 documentation states:

Copy <configRootShare>/classes/alfresco/subsystems/Authentication/ldap/ldap-authentication.properties
to <classpathRoot>/alfresco/extension/subsystems/Authentication/ldap/ldap1/ldap-authentication.properties

This path does not exist: <configRootShare>/classes/alfresco/subsystems/Authentication/ldap/ldap-authentication.properties

The only folders that exist under <configRootShare>/classes/alfresco/subsystems/Authentication/ are:
alfrescoNtlm
external
kerberos
passthru

There is no LDAP and no such file as "ldap-authentication.properties"

I am using a Bitnami Linux VM image with Alfresco Community 5.0c

Any ideas on why these files would be missing?

Re: Missing folders and files in 5.0a?

erickrivera — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 21:34:56 GMT

Hi RAurelian, In version 5.0 of Alfresco there are no folders that you want (LDAP) The settings for Ldap must place the file "alfresco-global.properties"
that should be in the path "/alfresco/tomcat/shared/classes"

Erick Rivera
www.ups.edu.ec

Re: Missing folders and files in 5.0a?

raurelian — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 14:16:07 GMT

Hi Erick,

Thank you for this information!

Re: Missing folders and files in 5.0a?

boiss007 — Sun, 08 Mar 2015 14:05:30 GMT

The new build (alfresco 5 use Maven) doesn't come with the subsystems properties files, but you can still find them in the git repository, just do a google search for "alfresco git ldap-authentication.properties" and copy the content of the files the ldap subsystems directory, then you can configure your authentication outside of the alfresco-global.properties

Re: Missing folders and files in 5.0a?

joe_l3 — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 12:19:30 GMT

Hi all,

starting from version 5, to get the ldap subsystem folders you need to extract the JAR file located in WEB-INF/lib/alfresco-repository-(ver).jar

Alfresco 5 packaging was changed due to code refactoring and integration with Maven. So some files used for edit in webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/* are now moved in the compiled JARs.
According to the release notes, there's a known issue about this :
https://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_Community_5.0.c_Release_Notes

I hove it will be useful
J