2 Sep
2010
2 Sep
'10
1:47 p.m.
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 10:24, Alex Bradbeer <abradbeer(a)aucb.ac.uk> wrote:
Hi everyone. 2 issues (sort of related):
1:
We have installed XEM 2.4 on Windows Server 2003 using Jetty and mySQL 5, and have
successfully got LDAP to work on the main wiki (authenticating against Active Directory) -
the user's first/last name appears in the top right (and if they navigate to their
profile, the AD info is there). However, when we create a child/sub wiki (and import the
standard .xar), the LDAP authentication appears to work, but the same level of user
information is not pulled through (only the username appears - no first name, last name or
profile details etc). Is there something else we need to set up?
User information synchronisation should work well on subwikis too. You
could try to enable debug log to see what exactly happen and find why
i does not update user profile informations. See
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Authentication#HEnableL…
Ideally we would like to set the entire farm up so that if a user logs into one, they had
their accounts made in each. Alternatively, the ability to import all users and set up
accounts would be great - we can then pre-allocate users to specific spaces etc (any news
on re-developing the 'Import users from LDAP' plugin?!). We've found the
xwiki.preferences class objects page - but are a bit confused!
No there is nothing for that currently, never found time to work on
the "famous" LDAP administration UI that sorry. If you know a bit of
Java and want to work on that i could point you to the right direction
and answer questions.
2:
In addition, the process of creating child wikis seems to have an issue with the main
administrator (Admin/admin) - when logged in (to one of the child wikis) the
'Preferences' and 'Profile' menu items (in the top right) refer to
'localhost', not the assigned alias/dns...
I just updated XEM installation documentation with a warning about
that, pretty sure you have the described issue (i.e. localhost as the
main wiki first alias instead of the proper alias). See
http://manager.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/InstallationMySQL#HConfi…
Can anyone point me in the right direction?! (Apologies if this seems a bit of a
locked-down approach to using wikis - but as an educational institution, we need to keep
the editing of content secure!).
You might want to share the same user profile for in the whole farm
for each user. By default each wiki is doing it's own LDAP
authentication and synchronization which means that in practical each
user is duplicated in all wikis. You can look at
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/LDAPAuthenticationUseCa…
to setup that.
Thanks,
Alex
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Alex Bradbeer
Learning Technologist
The Arts University College at Bournemouth
aucb.ac.uk
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