get user profile (profile at least firstName, lastName & mail) in alfresco while authentication of open ldap

satya_kolliboin — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 08:24:40 GMT

we integrated alfresco 4.2.c with open ldap to authenticate users.If first time user login to alfresco then alfresco authenticates user from ldap and creating the user.That created user profile have firstName only. But we need user profile sync with at least these attributes of ldap: firstName, last

Re: get user profile (profile at least firstName, lastName & mail) in alfresco while authentication of open ldap

mitpatoliya — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 08:42:55 GMT

I think if you have set all these three properties correctly in your ldap-authentication.properties you should be able to import all three attributes properly.

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

# 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

Re: get user profile (profile at least firstName, lastName & mail) in alfresco while authentication of open ldap

satya_kolliboin — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 09:44:00 GMT

Hi Mitpatoliya,

Let me know for first time login user sync (i.e,. import, logged user properties into alfresco) purpose, Is it mandatory to pass LDAP ADMIN USERNAME AND PASSWORD?
Yeah, I configured the below properties
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# 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 that passed through to LDAP
# - simple
#    - this must be a DN and would be something like
#      uid=%s,ou=People,dc=company,dc=com
# - digest
#    - usually pass through what is entered
#      %s
# If not set, an LDAP query involving ldap.synchronization.personQuery and ldap.synchronization.userIdAttributeName will
# be performed to resolve the DN dynamically. This allows directories to be structured and doesn't require the user ID to
# appear in the DN.
ldap.authentication.userNameFormat=uid\=%s,ou\=people,o\=intra,dc\=company,dc\=com

# 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://SERVER_IP: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=

# 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=false

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

# The default principal to use (only used for LDAP sync)
ldap.synchronization.java.naming.security.principal=

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

# 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=0

# 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=0

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

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

# The query to select all objects that represent the users to import.
ldap.synchronization.personQuery=(objectclass\=inetOrgPerson)

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

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

# The user search base restricts the LDAP user query to a sub section of tree on the LDAP server.
ldap.synchronization.userSearchBase=ou\=people,o\=intra,dc\=company,dc\=com

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

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

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

# 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=o

# 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=description

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

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

# 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

Re: get user profile (profile at least firstName, lastName & mail) in alfresco while authentication of open ldap

mitpatoliya — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 11:21:34 GMT

Yeah I guess that is the missing link over here.
The values you specify on right side should be matching with attribute from ldap you want to map with.

Re: get user profile (profile at least firstName, lastName & mail) in alfresco while authentication of open ldap

satya_kolliboin — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 12:15:07 GMT

Hi Mitpatoliya,

In our case all properties are right.
By using JXPLORER tool, we are able to fetch ldap users list with anonymous authentication.
Similarly, in alfresco with anonymous authentication can fetch user details and create user while logging first time into it?

Let us know for first time login user sync (that means import logged user attributes into alfresco) purpose, Is it mandatory to pass LDAP ADMIN USERNAME AND PASSWORD?

Re: get user profile (profile at least firstName, lastName & mail) in alfresco while authentication of open ldap

mitpatoliya — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 10:19:20 GMT

It will require LDAP Admin Username and PASSWORD AFAIK.

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