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• Etherpad with Active Directory (LDAP/AD)

  Date: 2010.02.03 | Category: ad, etherpad, ldap, shibboleth, single sign on, sso | Response: 2

  So you want to host your own Etherpad deployment and you want to tie it into your schools AD/LDAP/Active directory? Below are the basic instructions for how to accomplish this. Alternatively you can pay us to do it.
  Get the patch
  lynx https://gist.github.com/10061b4b213619816db5
  Get the etherpad source (warning- may take some time- go make a cuppa tea)
  hg clone https://etherpad.googlecode.com/hg/ etherpad
  Go to the etherpad folder
  cd etherpad
  Extract the patch
  tar -xvz –strip-components=1 -f ../gist10061b4b213619816db5-e60df95e16c09700b4cf07cd87b9732dd7b15ace.tar.gz
  Apply the patch

  patch -p1 < ldap_support.patch

  Set your superdomain

  nano trunk/etherpad/src/etherpad/globals.js

  add yourdomain.whatever to the SUPERDOMAINS

  Edit pro_accounts.js

  nano trunk/etherpad/src/etherpad/pro/pro_accounts.js

  Change directory

  cd trunk/etherpad

  Add the useLdapconf to the config

  echo “etherpad.useLdapConfiguration = ./etc/json.config” >> etc/etherpad.localdev-default.properties

  Edit json.config

  nano etc/json.config

  Paste in (you need the {}’s):

  
  

  {

  “url” : “ldap://localhost:10389″,

  “principal” : “uid=admin,ou=system”,

  “password” : “secret”,

  “rootPath” : “ou=users,ou=system”,

  “userClass” : “person”,

  “nameAttribute” : “displayname“,

  “ldapSuffix” : “@ldap”

  }

  Replacing the above with your settings.

  Build your etherpad

  bin/rebuildjar.sh

  Test your etherpad

  bin/run-local.sh

  Browse to http://yourdomain.com:9000/ep/pro-account/sign-in

  Type in your email address (of the user in ldap) and password

  Fin! Credit to Elliot Kroo and Marcio Starke – discussed further in this google group.

  Shibboleth integration coming mid 2010 (if anyone wants to fund this please get in touch!)

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