the undead wrote:
From: "Mohamed Imran K R" <mohamedimran.kr@gmail.com> To: "the undead" <the_real_undead@hotmail.com> CC: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: Re Re: [Koha] Koha reports not working hi
Dear Mr.
as I understand "LDAP, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, is an Internet protocol that email and other programs use to look up information from a server." as it's in http://www.gracion.com/server/whatldap.html
so why do u need it for koha? could u please explain that to me if you have time for that
ldap is what you said it is but more importantly its just a directory which programs use to authenticate the users accessing that system. for ex, if you have an ldap directory containing all the usernames of your organization, then you can have many applications looking up for information from it.
i have an openldap server in my institution that is authenticating users for mail servers, data servers, course management software etc.,
i would also like koha to authenticate its users through the same directory just to have the same usernames across all apps.
Is your organization that pig, I mean you can consider the manual solution by searching the ldap for koha and get the information you need
I don't know either about perl but I think that you may add an autherity list for the members inside koha but I don't know how you will be able to link it to the members field as it's not in the marc structure
what do you think about that?
Koha supports LDAP and Mohamed has that working if I remember correctly. What he is having trouble with is mapping his fields from the LDAP database to the Koha one. You have to edit the Auth_with_ldap.pm module to make it work with your LDAP server. As far as I know he has it so that Koha uses the LDAP to autheniticate against, he just doesnt have it populating the members table in Koha. I didnt write the Koha LDAP code and hence dont have a great understanding of how it works, but if someone who worked on it could help Mohamed out that would be great Chris