[afnog] Re : Re : Re : (no subject)

[Makan SIMAGA]

Hi Noah,

Thank you Noah for your suggestions.
I will continue to search a solution during the next 24 hours and if the problem is not solved, I'll write a script to pull user and password 
information from AD and put it into the application 
MySQL table.


Thanks a lot.
 Makan SIMAGA
Cel : +223 76 07 37 19





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De : Noah Sematimba <ksemat at psg.com>
À : Makan SIMAGA <makansimaga at yahoo.fr>
Cc : Joe Abley <jabley at hopcount.ca>; Chris Wilson <chris at aptivate.org>; AFNOG <afnog at afnog.org>
Envoyé le : Mer 10 Mars 2010, 12 h 08 min 30 s
Objet : Re: [afnog] Re :  Re :  (no subject)




On Mar 10, 2010, at 2:54 PM, Makan SIMAGA wrote:

Hi Joe
>
>Maarch is a web based application written in PHP5.
>It can be implemented with Oracle, PostgreSQL, MS SQL or MySQL databases, but I have a MySQL based implementation and it work perfectly.
>By default, users are registered in a MySQL table and authentication process is based on this table.
>It is also possible to use LDAP authentication and in my case, I would like to use MS Active directory but there is no documentation about LDAP authentication in Maarch official Website (www.maarch.org) nor in their forum (http://forum.maarch.org/).
>When you google your error message (_NO_LOGIN_OR_PSW_BY_LDAP), you obtain nothing.
>After two weeks of research I decided to ask for help in AFNOG forum, a forum known to use a lot of open source solutions. 
>Really I expect to find someone who has already use Maarch with LDAP, but I certainly ask badly my question and I'm sorry.
>AFNOG forum help me greatly when I had problems with Unix/linux, BIND, Postfix implementations. But I recognize that in this case, it's an unusual application and it would be very difficult to help someone if you have never implement it.
>The only solution I have now is to read the source code to try to understand the process or to write my own LDAP authentication process which is more easy but sometimes not recommended.

Well rather than read source code, you can instead engineer a workaround to this. There are many implementations of authentication to AD written for various other things like RADIUS, pam, etc. You can simply write a script to pull your user and password information from AD, put it into your MYsql table and use it, or if Maarch can do it, you configure it to authenticate via RADIUS or pam and then configure those to authenticate against your MS AD.

Noah.


      
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