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From: divya shree <maildinu_divya AT yahoo.co.in>
Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 16:57:05 +0100 (BST)

hii

I hav integrated openldap-2.4.7 onto eprints-3.1.0...by changing the scripts ↵
user_login.pl and user_roles.pl (/opt/eprints3/archives/archiveid/cfg/cfg.d/ )
as given in the 
http://wiki.eprints.org/w/LDAP

I also ran the update_users script which successfully imported all the users ↵
from the ldap server onto the mysql db of eprints...

The problem is tat i am not able to authenticate the users tat were added to ↵
the mysql db from the ldap server..(ie..wen i give the username n password in ↵
the eprints webpage i get invalid user )...at the same time i can authenticate ↵
the other users..

i need to fix this prob ASAP..
can someone help me with this ASAP..

Thanks and Regards
Divya

       
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From: Tim Brody <tdb01r AT ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 17:17:07 +0100

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divya shree wrote:
> hii
>
> I hav integrated openldap-2.4.7 onto eprints-3.1.0...by changing the 
> scripts user_login.pl and user_roles.pl 
> (/opt/eprints3/archives/archiveid/cfg/cfg.d/ )
> as given in the
> http://wiki.eprints.org/w/LDAP
>
> I also ran the update_users script which successfully imported all the 
> users from the ldap server onto the mysql db of eprints...
>
> The problem is tat i am not able to authenticate the users tat were 
> added to the mysql db from the ldap server..(ie..wen i give the 
> username n password in the eprints webpage i get invalid user )...at 
> the same time i can authenticate the other users..
LDAP can be a real pain to get working depending on your LDAP set up. 
Can you look in your Apache error logs and give us any error messages?

Can you authenticate "by hand" using the ldap command line tools for ↵
an 
example user?

I'm not an expert on making EPrints talk to LDAP, but I believe most 
people get it working fairly easily, assuming you have the correct DN 
settings etc.

All the best,
Tim.