2011/10/13 Dobrica Pavlinušić <[email protected]>: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 17:14, Tom Hanstra <[email protected]> wrote: >> Where can I find additional documentation on how Koha interacts with LDAP. >> Options in the configuration file include "replicate" and "update", but >> I've yet to get a good understanding of how each fully works and how I can >> best populate patrons using data from my LDAP server. > > replicate is one-time option when user which just typed correct login > and password doesn't exist in Koha. If enabled, it will create > new user in Koha. > > update is triggered every time users logs in, and it will overwrite > that user info in Koha using data from LDAP. So, if you edited > user which originally came from LDAP in Koha > and user logs in again, that data will be overwritten. > > In our configuration we are using just replicate to create new users, > and since we have script which keep just dateexpiry in Koha > in sync with LDAP we are not using update. > > Documentation embedded withing koha and available via perldoc > Auth_with_ldap.pm is as far as I know, best resource for LDAP configuration.
An easy way to read that documentation is here http://perldoc.koha-community.org/C4/Auth_with_ldap.html All the perldoc lives at http://perldoc.koha-community.org/index.html Chris > ______________________ _________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > [email protected] > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
