On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 10:24, Alex Bradbeer <[email protected]> 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#HEnableLDAPdebuglog > > 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#HConfigurethemainwikidescriptor > > 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/LDAPAuthenticationUseCases#HI27minmultiwikienvironmentandIwantmyLDAPuserstoregisteredonlyonmainwiki to setup that. > > Thanks, > > Alex > > -- > > Alex Bradbeer > Learning Technologist > The Arts University College at Bournemouth > aucb.ac.uk > > ********************************************************************************************************* > > The contents of this communication are confidential and intended solely for > the use of the named recipient(s). If you have received this email in error > please delete it and do not disseminate, distribute, copy or alter it. > Any views or opinions expressed are those of the author and do not > necessarily represent those of The Arts University College at Bournemouth. > > Although The Arts University College at Bournemouth has taken reasonable > precautions to ensure no viruses are present in this email, the University > College cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage arising from the > use of this email or attachments. > > ********************************************************************************************************* > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
