LDAP.rst

Installing a bridge with MarkUs and a LDAP

First, follow classical steps to install MarkUs in production mode. See [A System Administrator's Guide](wiki:InstallProdStable).

Compilation of ldap_synch_auth.c

There is a very little program called ldap_synch_auth in lib/tools/ldap.

For using it, you will have to compile it.

Edit ldap parameters

Change ldap config in ldap_synch_auth.h, in particular

#define DC_COUNTRY "fr"
#define DC_INSTITUTION "ec-nantes"
#define OU "people"
/* Specify the ldap database here. */
#define HOSTNAME "ldap.ec-nantes.fr"
#define PORTNUMBER 389

Compilation

Install ldap development packages

aptitude install libldap-dev

Compile it :)

make

Do the bridge with MarkUs

Edit config/dummy_validate.sh

Comment or remove the 'exit 0' line call the C program and add this line

########################################################################
# Do your password validation here
########################################################################
printf "$user\n$password\n"  | /you/path/to/ldap/program/ldap_synch_auth && exit 0 || exit 1
# Exit with 0 return code, if and only if user/password combination
# is valid
#exit 0