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Alfresco Community 5.0 with AD

karthikjaps — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 11:29:00 GMT

Hi , i am new to Alfersco , right now i install Alfresco Community 5.0 in my machine and testing to integerate my AD user with it , but i try some link which available in site, now its confused , can any one pls share some documentation for this current version AD Integration .i have an doute on fol

Re: Alfresco Community 5.0 with AD

tybion — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 01:31:03 GMT

I have recently set up LDAP authentication on 2 Alfresco servers - 5.0.d and 4.2 - using the exactly the same config files.
I only needed to edit 2 files ..
1. /opt/alfresco-5.0.d/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/subsystems/Authentication/ldap/ldap1/ldap-authentication.properties
2. /opt/alfresco-5.0.d/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties

I wrote a blog - and although it is for LDAP (not AD), it might be of some help.

http://geofoss.net/category/alfresco/

Please let me know if it helps.

Re: Alfresco Community 5.0 with AD

karthikjaps — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 05:24:28 GMT

Thanks tybion , AD and LDAP configuration are same or i have to change some ?

Re: Alfresco Community 5.0 with AD

tybion — Sat, 08 Aug 2015 00:27:40 GMT

AD and LDAP will be similar, but not the same.

I suggest you download the Alfresco source from https://github.com/Alfresco/community-edition/archive/master.zip
and use the example ldap-ad-authentication.properties file in there - most of this will be correct - check every value in the file to see if it needs to be customised - eg. authentication username and password need to be customised

I found the example properties file at this location in the downloaded source ..
alf_src/community-edition-master/projects/repository/config/alfresco/subsystems/Authentication/ldap-ad/ldap-ad-authentication.properties

The alfresco-global.properties file will also be different to my LDAP config.
Refer to the Alfresco manual - http://docs.alfresco.com/5.0/tasks/auth-example-oneldap-ad.html - but you might still want to use my sychnronization options while testing.