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LDAP Authentication not working

paul99
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Champ in-the-making

‎10-20-2009 06:04 PM

Hi,

Using Alfresco Community Edition 3.2 on Ubuntu 9.04.  I edited ldap-authentication.properties and restarted, but I can't seem to log in using my LDAP user id.

I have used the same LDAP settings in Plone, TikiWiki and DekiWiki with success, so not sure why it's not working with Alfresco.  Any ideas?

Thanks,

Paul
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lees
Champ in-the-making
Champ in-the-making

‎10-21-2009 12:49 AM

Did you updated your authentication chain?
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paul99
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Champ in-the-making

‎10-26-2009 06:44 PM

Did you updated your authentication chain?

Umm .. sorry, I must have don't recall seeing that in the documentation.  How do I go about doing this?

Thanks,

Paul
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bufke
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Champ in-the-making

‎10-27-2009 03:57 PM

Hi

I'm in the same boat but I think I do know what the authentication chain is.  It tells alfresco what to check when logging in.  So you could authenticate against many sources, say locally and AD in a specified order.  In the file /usr/share/tomcat6/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties I think you can add
authentication.chain=ldapfile:ldap
where ldapfile whatever you named the ldap extension.

Let me know if and how you get it working.  This is the most confusing setup for ldap I've ever seen.
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paul99
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Champ in-the-making

‎10-27-2009 04:07 PM

Hi,

I got it sort of working.  I added:

authentication.chain=ldap1:ldap

to:

../tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties

and restarted.  Then I was able to authenticate using LDAP; however, my admin password no longer worked. I recall reading that there is some way to specify exceptions to using LDAP for certain users.

I agree that the LDAP setup is more confusing than need be, compared to what I've used before.

Cheers,

Paul

Hi

I'm in the same boat but I think I do know what the authentication chain is.  It tells alfresco what to check when logging in.  So you could authenticate against many sources, say locally and AD in a specified order.  In the file /usr/share/tomcat6/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties I think you can add
authentication.chain=ldapfile:ldap
where ldapfile whatever you named the ldap extension.

Let me know if and how you get it working.  This is the most confusing setup for ldap I've ever seen.
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