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LDAP support

  • This topic has 5 replies, 5 voices, and was last updated 7 years, 4 months ago by Basem Aly.
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  • January 8, 2013 at 4:04 pm #1644
    Richard Crane
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    * Can I use one of the LDAP plugins?  Is there a recommended one?

    January 9, 2013 at 1:09 pm #1650
    Ray
    Keymaster

    You should be able to use any WordPress LDAP plugin:
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/ldap

    Let us know which one you use and if you encounter any conflicts with BuddyPress.

    January 16, 2013 at 12:07 am #1683
    Jared Bennett
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    I have used this one for a couple of years with Buddypress: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/active-directory-integration/. We investigated a number of them and this one seemed to work the best. Although it doesn’t claim compatibility, we have had no issues running it on the latest versions of BP (1.6.3) and WP (3.5)

    The only issue is that it isn’t compatible with multisite, so we have it enabled on the main site only. When students log in for the first time, they have to do so from the main domain. Subsequent logins to subdomains work because we have the plugin configured to sync the passwords to the WordPress database. This is the only way we can ensure that add ons like the WordPress mobile apps work. It does create a user management headache though, because once the users password is stored in the WP database, then they can access your community even if you remove them from the LDAP, making user management a bit (a lot) of a pain.

    I’m not sure if anyone has a better solution than that.

    January 16, 2013 at 8:32 am #1687
    hoenera
    Participant

    We have “simple LDAP plugin” network activated on our multisite install It seems to work well on our network of a couple hundred users. Also using “import users from csv” to enroll students to individual course sites. The hitch there, is it seems to work only for “new” users. (meaning new to the network). If the student was enrolled in a class last semester we’re having to register them manually.

    March 11, 2014 at 3:27 pm #4452
    Basem Aly
    Participant

    Hi, all. I’ve gotten Simple LDAP to work on my site, which is running with multisite, and it’s supposed to register new users once they’ve successfully logged-in with LDAP. However, I’m noticing that the upper-right corner menu linking to a user’s activity, profile edit, friends, and other typical BBPress things doesn’t work. The user gets a 404 error. Is there some additional step I need to allow LDAP users to integrate with BBpress? I tried disabling extended BB profiles, but that didn’t seem to work either.

    As the attached image shows, I just tried logging in with Simple LDAP and it created a John Public account, based on the test data stored in LDAP. Logged-in as this user, I was able to create a group successfully, but when I look at the Activities or Groups item in the upper-right menu, I get a “there’s nothing here” error.

    I thought one clue might be the username shown in the URL: /members/JohnPublic/activity, when the actual username should be tstudent as shown in the grey text of the upper-right menu. However I still got the same error when replacing tstudent in the URL.

    Could it be that newly-created LDAP users aren’t getting fully sync’ed or propagated into BBPress? Or could there be a problem in the way I setup Simple LDAP?

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    November 20, 2015 at 2:45 pm #5845
    Basem Aly
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    After struggling for a few months trying to get LDAP to work for authentication, I ended up using Active Directory Integration. My bosses now want to revisit trying to use LDAP again. Can anyone suggest a plugin that might work? I had previously tried Simple LDAP (see my message above), but had no luck.

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