LDAP Login's

finid

I've not come across any mention of LDAP login and certainly I'm not aware of any LDAP login plugin.

However, there are more than a handful of Node.js LDAP libs accessible from GitHub that can be used to write an KDAP login plugin for NodeBB. Question is, Who's going to write it?

tparnell

@planner Well if I didn't find something soon I was planning on writing one, however I did see a pull request on github that was closed a month or so ago with the code to do this....I believe it was closed because it was not written as a plug-in...

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?