Etherpad with Active Directory (LDAP/AD)

Admin Admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:20:00 +0000

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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