Hi,

I've been reading alot about a better implementing of LDAP in TYPO3 5, and
that I'm looking forward to - untill then, we just use our creativity to get
around these challenges

Unfortunately, my creativity just isn't.. creative enough, to solve this
problem. I need a possibility to authenticate against a LDAP server. There
are made extension for this, but unfortunately they don't seem to do the
authentication, unless i manually import the users to the fe_users database.
I've tried both with eu_ldap and the series of ldap_* extensions.

Is there a way, to get past this challenge with a already written extension,
else I'll be glad to start the developing of such extension. I then need a
bit of help, on how to get the extension to respond on the login call from
the FE user loginbox - anybody?

Hope to hear from someone regarding this

Best regards

Søren
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Søren Malling schrieb:
> [...]
> Unfortunately, my creativity just isn't.. creative enough, to solve this
> problem. I need a possibility to authenticate against a LDAP server. There
> are made extension for this, but unfortunately they don't seem to do the
> authentication, unless i manually import the users to the fe_users database.
> I've tried both with eu_ldap and the series of ldap_* extensions.

This isn't true at least for eu_ldap. Users will be authenticated
regardless their (non-)existance in the FE/BE user table.

RTFM, eu_ldap->manual->"administration chapter"->"how authentication
works"! I'm using this extension for years and I cannot remember a time
when it didn't have this "feature".


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Hi Marcus,

This isn't true at least for eu_ldap. Users will be authenticated
> regardless their (non-)existance in the FE/BE user table.
>
> RTFM, eu_ldap->manual->"administration chapter"->"how authentication
> works"! I'm using this extension for years and I cannot remember a time
> when it didn't have this "feature".


Then please advise me in my problem:

I'm setting up the FE login box to point to my SysFolder containing the LDAP
server, and I've enabled the LDAP Auth Service (for Frontend only) but no
authentication is succesful. With in the BE module "LDAP Integration" I'm
able to get a summary of the LDAP database, and only after manually
importing the users, a login request is succeeded.

I hope to hear from you again.

Regards and thanks

Søren
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Søren Malling schrieb:
> Hi Marcus,
>
> This isn't true at least for eu_ldap. Users will be authenticated
>> regardless their (non-)existance in the FE/BE user table.
>>
>> RTFM, eu_ldap->manual->"administration chapter"->"how authentication
>> works"! I'm using this extension for years and I cannot remember a time
>> when it didn't have this "feature".
>
>
> Then please advise me in my problem:
>
> I'm setting up the FE login box to point to my SysFolder containing the LDAP
> server, and I've enabled the LDAP Auth Service (for Frontend only) but no
> authentication is succesful. With in the BE module "LDAP Integration" I'm
> able to get a summary of the LDAP database, and only after manually
> importing the users, a login request is succeeded.

If you think you set up everything correctely (base dn, filter, etc.)
and it still doesn't work you'll have to debug the extension to get to
know, where there is a (configuration) error. Extension uses devlog.

One possibility to eliminate a bug introduced in latest extension
versions is to install prior extension versions.

As I said, extension provides desired feature. If it doesn't work it's
most probably a configuration error or a bug.


Regards,
Marcus.
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>
> If you think you set up everything correctely (base dn, filter, etc.)
> and it still doesn't work you'll have to debug the extension to get to
> know, where there is a (configuration) error. Extension uses devlog.


Thanks about devlog, that one helped me alot! I'm able to see that the login
is succesfull, but the felogin still returns the text I've entered in the
"Error" box when setting up the plugin. A cookie is also being genrated,
which should mean that the login was completed, right?

Name fe_typo_user
Value 4f18ff6ebd
Host MY_DOMAIN
Path /
Secure No
Expires At End Of Session

Marcus, did you make any changes to the extension or any speciel setup?

Regards

Søren
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Søren Malling schrieb:
>> If you think you set up everything correctely (base dn, filter, etc.)
>> and it still doesn't work you'll have to debug the extension to get to
>> know, where there is a (configuration) error. Extension uses devlog.
>
>
> Thanks about devlog, that one helped me alot!

Great.


> I'm able to see that the login is succesfull, but the felogin still
> returns the text I've entered in the "Error" box when setting up the
> plugin. A cookie is also being genrated, which should mean that the
> login was completed, right?

By default, TYPO3 generates a cookie, i.e. a session, whenever a user
hits your website. So it isn't something to judge from if authentication
works.
Did you set up a specific page only visible to a FE usergroup (users of
AD/LDAP) to check if user was indeed authenticated?


> Marcus, did you make any changes to the extension or any speciel setup?

No, it worked out-of-the-box. I'm using it to authenticate users of an
AD but I'm currently using an elderly version of eu_ldap.


Marcus.
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