[LON-CAPA-admin] Anyone use LDAP?

[Stefan Bisitz]

> Hi,
> 
> James Madison University is bringing a server up. Locally they use 
> LDAP for authentication. Does anyone else use LDAP? Would they be 
> willing to share the code stubs they use and any advice on
> tweaking the code to work at another university?
> 
> Thanks!
> Mark


Hi Mark,

always remember to keep at least one user as Domain Coordinator with
(LON-CAPA-)internal authentication. If you lost contact to your LDAP
server, you would be still able to login. As you know this kind of users
can also change the authentication method for other users. Just in case
the LDAP server is not available for a longer period of time you could
change the users who need to continue working to "Internally
authenticated" which makes them access LON-CAPA without LDAP server
connection.

Stefan Bisitz