Hi Piers, I cannot change the LDAP/AD structure and all our other systems have a list of LDAP servers which they try in order until a match is found or none. If the first fails, they use the next. I can understand having the institute in the user details but not a particular server. I might be wrong, but it looks like Mahara does try each one in turn by priory and therefore the first successful lookup must be the server in the user details. If it isn't you will get an error message even though you have entered the correct username and password. This is a bad design and counter intuitive.
John. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mahara Core, which is subscribed to Mahara. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/855525 Title: Logon failure - LDAP authentication tied to one server Status in Mahara ePortfolio: Won't Fix Bug description: Mahara 1.4.0 Linux Centos 5.7 MySQL All browsers User logons failing when username and password are correct. We added two new Microsoft AD servers to our institution. However, all accounts in this institution cannot logon using these servers due to the users having the auth_instance declared in their usr entry (authinstance). If I update the auth_instance with the new server details they can logon. This means if that server fails users will not be able to logon even though we have other servers listed which can authenticate. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/855525/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mahara-core Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mahara-core More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
