[Jared Bennett]

There was a really cool plugin that previously did this. It hasn’t been updated in a while, and doesn’t work anymore, but might be worth investigating if you were thinking of developing something:

https://github.com/lncd/bebop

[Jared Bennett]

I’m not an LDAP expert by any stretch, but we did have LDAP configured for authentication before we moved our server off-site and opted for SAML instead. I know what was configured on the WP side as far as workflow is concerned

The order of install doesn’t really matter. Get your site set up with Multisite and the CBOX setup. You always want to be able to log in as the admin using the core functionality, so that if the LDAP service fails, as the admin you can still log in and triage issues.

I was never able to find an LDAP plugin that worked on Multisite, so I had the plugin active only on the main site and forced users to enter through the main domain, even if they were headed to their own subsite on the multisite install. Alternatively if you are syncing the LDAP password from your system over to WP (I’m not familiar with Simple LDAP, but some plugins offer this), then after they initially log in and their profile is created, their username and password will work on all the subsites. There are probably some security issues here you should be aware of if the reason you are trying to set up LDAP is to keep your passwords securely managed in one location, this sync defeats that.

[Jared Bennett]

Something like this might also be of interest: http://wordpress.org/plugins/buddymobile/

Looks like there is a new version coming out shortly: http://modemlooper.me/buddymobile-2-0/

[Jared Bennett]

Tagging in a post would require some work, but this plugin does provide username autocomplete on @mentions in activity stream updates: https://github.com/r-a-y/BP-Labs

[Jared Bennett]

That fixed it. Cheers.

[Jared Bennett]

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.

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