Re Re: [Koha] Koha reports not working
From: "Mohamed Imran K R" <mohamedimran.kr@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha reports not working Hi all i sorted out my reports prob on the IRC but i am still stuck on the ldap front. i dont know much about perl, so i am stuck up. after lots of reading of previous posts on the ldap front, i got koha to authenticate against the college ldap but i am still not able to get the details of all users into koha. 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 --------------------------------- http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=arabic _________________________________________________________________ All-in-one security and maintenance for your PC. Get a free 90-day trial! http://www.windowsonecare.com/trial.aspx?sc_cid=msn_hotmail
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
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. so why do u need it for koha? could u please explain that to me if you have
time for that
-- Regards Mohamed Imran K R
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? _________________________________________________________________ Call friends with PC-to-PC calling -- FREE http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/default.aspx?locale=en-us&source=wlmailtagline
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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
there are thousands of users and more provisioned. so i just want the changes to be reflected as and when the users change info about themselves. for manual sol, i have to synchronize every now & then hoping that there is no loss. the koha ldap module fetches & fills in the data from the ldap into the borrower table of koha db. i dont how is it related to MARC! -- Regards Mohamed Imran K R
Mohamed Imran K R a écrit :
there are thousands of users and more provisioned. so i just want the changes to be reflected as and when the users change info about themselves. for manual sol, i have to synchronize every now & then hoping that there is no loss.
the koha ldap module fetches & fills in the data from the ldap into the borrower table of koha db. i dont how is it related to MARC! It is not. koha_ldap modules, as far as I know, was designed by someone who needed it once, neither by me nor by paul (iirc). And it seems NOT populating borrowers table with data from LDAP. LDAP is merely used as a login facility.
But paul will come back next week I can ask him. -- Henri-Damien LAURENT
Henri-Damien LAURENT wrote:
Mohamed Imran K R a écrit :
there are thousands of users and more provisioned. so i just want the changes to be reflected as and when the users change info about themselves. for manual sol, i have to synchronize every now & then hoping that there is no loss.
the koha ldap module fetches & fills in the data from the ldap into the borrower table of koha db. i dont how is it related to MARC! It is not. koha_ldap modules, as far as I know, was designed by someone who needed it once, neither by me nor by paul (iirc). And it seems NOT populating borrowers table with data from LDAP. LDAP is merely used as a login facility.
But paul will come back next week I can ask him. Hmmm
Looking around line 575 it seems that it updates the borrowers table, or creates a new borrower if one doesnt exist. But we should probably continue this discussion on the koha-devel list. Chris
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