[Koha] Fwd: LDAP documentation

[Chris Cormack]

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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