Forum .LRN Q&A: Re: External authentication with dotLRN (LDAP)

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Posted by Shahid Butt on
Background Info

I have on Fedora Core 3
AOLServer 4.0.10
dotLRN 2.1.1
Postgres 7.4.7

Within dotLRN I have installed
Authentication 5.1.4
LDAP Authentication 1.0d2
nsldap v1.6
OpenLdap v2.2.26

What I want to do is to implement external authentication of the users when logging into the dotLRN. The user names and password are to be held in Active Directory on a Windows Server.

New Registrations must also be stored in the Active Directory.

The reasoning behind this is that we have a number of other systems installed on the network, which the users will also need access to and I'm sure you would agree with me, that no body wants to have 5 different logins to access 5 different systems. All the access rights will be held in Active Directory and once your logged in then the "system would know" where you were allowed to go and what access you had.