20 June 2013, 4:21

Greetings,

I'm trying to configure and test out various ldap methods to see what works, best but I seem to be stuck on even getting the default working. 

I'm on mahara 1.7.1 installed via the Ubuntu 12.04 packages.  I've installed php5-ldap and appears to be setup properly via phpinfo()

ldap

In the Mahara Plugin configuraitons I see the options for LDAP but no configuraiton. Ironically I do have SAML configuration abilities. 

I've read this blog post:

https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=1385

I'd like to also look at some of the extra plugins:

https://github.com/patrickpollet/mahara_ldap_sync/wiki

But before i get to those was hoping to test out the basics. 

Is there some dependancy that I may be missing? Or other tricks to enabling/configuraing LDAP in a default 1.7.1 install? 

20 June 2013, 11:57

Hi Judd,

When you mention "Mahara Plugin configurations", do you mean the admin/extensions/plugins.php page? Because that's actually not where you configure LDAP authentication from.

LDAP authentication is configured by setting up an "authentication instance" for one of your site's institutions. See:

• How to create an Institution: http://manual.mahara.org/en/1.7/administration/institutions.html#add-an-institution
• How to set up the authentication for an Institution: http://manual.mahara.org/en/1.7/administration/institutions.html#edit-an-institution

If you're not doing a multi-tenanted installation (and really, most people aren't), then you might just want to add the LDAP instance to the "No Institution" institution.

Cheers,
Aaron

25 June 2013, 1:21

Thanks Aaron. That was exactly the problem I was looking for. Since I saw SAMAL configuration options, I assumed that there woudl also be LDAP configuration options there if enabled properly. Once going into the institution page, I found the LDAP settings. 

Thanks,

Taylor