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Joomla osx 10.6 and LDAP Thursday, 20 May 2010 20:50 |  Written by Ward |   
Joomla allows you to use your Mac OSX Server 10.6 native Open Directory for authentication at joomla's front door. This is nice as it gives the users of your school or company direct access to the front door. enable the standard joomla 1.5 ldap plugin, which came with the installation. The trick is correct settings for the standard (if there is such thing) LDAP. At a minimum you will need to set: (Suppose my FQDN is myserver.mycompany.com) Details : Public host: myserver.mycompany.com port 389 LDAPV3 YES Negotiate TLS NO Follow Referrals NO Authorization method: Bind and Search BASE DN dc=myserver,dc=mycompany,dc=com Search String uid=[search] Map: Full name cn Map: E-mail mail Map: User ID uid Leave other filed blank for now. ==== In Work Group Manager create a test user with: 1) only one short name. If you have multiple short names like 'bill' try using 'bill.list' when testing the front door at joomla. 2) The user MUST HAVE a email address in WGM, accountes, user info. Joomla need to get back at least one email otherwise the authentication will fail. == If you get that to work, you can reduce the search time by limting the ldap search. Authorization method: Bind Directly as User. User's DN: uid=[username],cn=users,dc=myserver,dc=mycompany,dc=com ==== If you want new users to be created in the ldap server you will need to authorize to the LDAP directory with Connect username and password. I did not try this. There is a way to map LDAP groups to the groups used joomla. this would enable you to give say: author permissions to a user directly from WGM. I have not tried that.
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