Question

We are enthusiastically using Twiki and it really makes sense if we adopt the LDAP authentication for Twiki.I have studied the previous mails regarding on "How to LDAP Authentication" but was unsuccessful implementing it. I'am working on my test m/c which we will later move it to Production.

Thanks!

Environment

-- PavithraPidatala - 08 Aug 2005

Answer

What is your question?

-- CrawfordCurrie - 18 Aug 2005

I would hazard that the question is: "How do I make LDAP authentication work?"

It would help if you described your environment in total: Webserver, LDAP server, etc.

-- SteveRJones - 19 Aug 2005

What we did at work is code an Apache module to, when a user log in with his LDAP account, create his Wiki name from its First & Last name LDAP fields, and setting the user field of the apache authentication to this wiki name, but this is because we had un-ccoperative LDAP maintainers here, otherwise the logical solution would have been to store the Wiki Name as a new LDAP field that apache would have used for loggin in wiki.

-- ColasNahaboo - 22 Aug 2005

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-- PeterThoeny - 23 Aug 2005

Due to requests, I have made my apache mod & admin scripts available at: http://wikix.ilog.fr/wiki/bin/view/Koala_Skin/LdapTWikiAuthentication (twiki.org is too slow for me to put a lot of material here)

Note that this scripts are definitely not ready-to-use in other contexts. One should tweak the apache module C code to generate the Wiki Names according to the local LDAP schema, and also tweak the various shell scripts to account for LDAP schema and TWiki installation paths differences

-- ColasNahaboo - 19 May 2007