LDAP Login's

julian

@tparnell There was a plugin, although it seems to have been taken down now

However, it is fairly trivial to fork an existing SSO plugin and use passport-ldap

tparnell

Thanks @julian if you can point me to a similar SSO plug-in I guess ill start getting to work soon...

julian

You'll notice they all have the same general layout, so you just fork one of them and go from there

tparnell

Will do! Hopefully I have something soon....

tparnell

@julian I took a lot at those plug-ins and I definitely think I can have something cooking by the end of the week or so....

Once I have it working, ill add it to npm......do you have a specific naming convention on npm?

julian

Yep -- please follow this nomenclature: nodebb-plugin-sso-{provider}, so in your case, nodebb-plugin-sso-ldap

tparnell

@julian Will do...I'll also look over your plug-in documentation later this week....thanks for the support!

julian

Feel free to hop onto #nodebb on Freenode IRC if you'd like to chat more in-depth.

psychobunny

nodebb-plugin-sso-ldap was written at some point but was then taken down by the author. I'm not exactly sure why, potentially because it didn't work, or he wanted to take it private for his own benefit?

daweedco

Up! Is any plugin written yet? Do you need some help?

julian

Hi @daweedco ! At current, there is no LDAP implementation yet, so if you want to take a crack at it, by all means!

Prasanna Prachu

Hi Team,

I installed nodebb-plugin-sso-ldap from (https://github.com/ianbogda/nodebb-plugin-sso-ldap) in my NodeBB (v0.6.0). While restarting the NodeBB, faced an error mentioned below. How to fix it?

error: TypeError: Cannot read property 'buildHeader' of undefined
at Object.Ldap.init [as method] (/home/ubuntu/Nodebb/nodebb/NodeBB/NodeBB-NodeBB-2a92c11/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-sso-ldap/library.js:28:60)

pichalite

@Prasanna-Prachu Looks like it's been a long time since that plugin is updated. It definitely doesn't support NodeBB v0.6.x.

Run

./nodebb reset plugin="nodebb-plugin-sso-ldap"

Prasanna Prachu

@pichalite Done. Now how to proceed with LDAP integration in NodeBB?

pichalite

@Prasanna-Prachu

@julian said:

Hi @daweedco ! At current, there is no LDAP implementation yet, so if you want to take a crack at it, by all means!

PitaJ

What is LDAP?

Don't give me what it stands for.

What is it actually used for?

Prasanna Prachu

We Use LDAP which contains list of users and group. so people can use the same username to login to NodeBB forum site.

PitaJ

@Prasanna-Prachu That ... doesn't help me understand what it is (although I realize it is what I asked for). Is it a database? Is it an SSO? Is it a user management thingy?

Prasanna Prachu

@pitaj It is an user management like Active Directory

rasguanabana

@julian I'm struggling with fixing old broken plugin, but I have no clue how to solve a strange problem. Plugin initializes well, but when I click on the alternative login button I get "Bad Request" error and I can't track where does it come from. Running NodeBB in dev mode does not show anything. Any clues how to find out what's causing a problem?

Anyway, it looks like fixing this old plugin is not a hard task, but I'm not very familiar with NodeBB code, so maybe someone more canny would accomplish it