[Koha] Fwd: LDAP documentation

[Tom Hanstra]

Thanks for this information.  I missed the Configuration table in my 
first review of this.

If I'm reading this right, then, if I want to populate Koha with 
information from LDAP I have two choices:

- Allow replication and wait for that patron to complete a login.  Then 
the information will be brought in.

- Perform a batch export from LDAP and then a batch load into production.

Is that right?  Or am I missing another option?

Thanks,
Tom

On 10/13/2011 06:36 AM, Chris Cormack wrote:
> 2011/10/13 Dobrica Pavlinušić<dpavlin at gmail.com>:
>> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 17:14, Tom Hanstra<tom at nd.edu>  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
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