[Vtigercrm-developers] vtiger + LDAP/Active Directory

[Carlo Beschi]

Hi Alan,

I've forwarded your email to one of my colleagues, who recently took 
care of a couple of vtiger LDAP integrations for customers of ours.

Briefly:

- we're using 5.1 - the patch is for that release, we haven't tested it 
on 5.2

- your customer is right about the LDAP tree searching thing. Please 
find attached a patch for enabling such feature (we use to submit such 
patches to vtiger trac - not sure we already sent this one in anyway)

- the idea of making an extension module is fair, but as far as I'm 
aware of, you can't patch vtiger core through a module (which makes 
sense), so ... it's not so easy.


Thanks for the valuable information you keep sending here, and sharing.

Carlo



Il 20/09/2010 14:46, Alan Lord (News) ha scritto:
> Hi all,
>
> One of our customers (we do work on Alfresco for them) emailed this morning:
>
> "
> Hi Alan
>
> I’m looking at vTiger at the moment to either replace SugarCRM or use in
> another product, I know you are quite a fan of it so I was hoping you
> could give me a pointer on something.  I have an instance of vTiger
> 5.2.0 RC installed now I am trying to hook it into our Active Directory,
> from the documentation (wasn’t great) and the forum it appears the only
> way to do this is to implement a patch that was developed for version
> 5.0.4 by a developer who has since left posting a slightly hot tempered
> final message on how badly vTiger was written...is there an easy (or
> any) way to do it?
> "
>
> So I did some digging and came up with this:
>
> http://trac.vtiger.com/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/5372
>
> and a couple of helpul comments at the end of this forum thread:
>
> http://forums.vtiger.com/viewtopic.php?t=21992&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=10
>
> I suggested my customer test this on vtiger 5.1.0 first and to let me
> know how they got on...
>
> "
> Thanks for the info, I'll install a 5.1.0 instance and see how I get on
> with the patches, I know you don't like Sugar but one of the main
> advantages is that it has LDAP built in and easily configurable.  If you
> have any input into vTiger you may want to put that in as a feature
> request, there seems to be a lack of documentation on it and quite a
> number of people on the forums asking the question.
> "
>
> About 1 hour later...
>
> "
> Ok, I got the package installed and the LDAP patch configured, it is
> relatively simple however the document doesn't include anything to
> mention that you have to edit the config.ldap.php file, it literally
> says copy the files and your done (in the previous section it does talk
> about setting up an LDAP server on Linux from scratch, the details that
> it tells you to configure are the same as in the config file.  So the
> documentation is only really useful to someone configuring LDAP
> specifically to run with vTiger.
>
> It works ok the only downside I can see is that it doesn't appear
> capable of searching an entire tree you have to specify an OU which
> would mean we would have to set up vTiger instances for each company.
> This can be an issue for a company like ours where many different people
> from across the organisation may need to access it.
> "
>
> So it seems as though this works but could do with a little TLC (tender
> loving care).
>
> This is the second time in a couple of days I've been asked about Single
> Sign On facilities and this would appear to be a good start.
>
> Can I suggest that we stick this on the forge and see if we can get some
> community help to turn it into a useful module that can be installed via
> the Module manager (vtlib), works on 5.2.0 and that we tidy up the
> documentation? I'd also like to take a look at his need to spanning OUs
> although I am *not* a LDAP guru so help here would be handy.
>
> Cheers
>
> Al
>

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