This is a module for Jelix, providing a plugin for jAuth allowing to authenticate with an ldap server, and register them in the app database, using a dao.

This module is for Jelix 1.6.x and higher.

Installation

Install files with Jelix 1.7 (experimental)

You should use Composer to install the module. Run this commands in a shell:

composer require "jelix/ldapdao-module"

Install files with Jelix 1.6

Copy the ldapdao directory into the modules/ directory of your application.

Declare the module

Next you must say to Jelix that you want to use the module. Declare it into the mainconfig.ini.php file (into yourapp/var/config/ for Jelix 1.6, or into yourapp/app/config/ for Jelix 1.7).

In the [modules] section, add:

ldapdao.access=1

Following modules are required: jacl2, jauth, jauthdb. In this same section verify that they are activated:

jacl2.access=1
jauth.access=2
jauthdb.access=1

Launch the installer

In the command line, launch:

php yourapp/cmd.php install

Configuration

This module provides two things:

1. a plugin, ldapdao, for jAuth
2. a configuration file for the auth plugin for jCoordinator.

The ldapdao plugin replaces the db or ldap plugin for jAuth. The installer of the module deactivates some jAcl2 rights, and copy an example of the configuration file authldap.coord.ini.php into the configuration directory
(var/config in Jelix 1.6, app/config in Jelix 1.7).

You should edit the new file authldap.coord.ini.php. Many properties should be changed to match your ldap structure.

Second, you should indicate this new configuration file into the mainconfig.ini.php file, in the coordplugins section:

[coordplugins]
auth="authldap.coord.ini.php"

General configuration properties

First you should set the dao, profile, ldapprofile and form properties, to indicate the dao (for the table), the form (for the administration module) and profiles to access to the database and the ldap.

For profiles, you should set connections parameters into the var/config/profiles.ini.php.

Example of a profile for the dao:

[jdb:myldapdao]
driver="mysqli"
host= "localhost"
database="userdb"
user= "admin"
password="jelix"
persistent= on
force_encoding = on

Here the profile is named myldapdao so you should set profile=myldapdao into authldap.coord.ini.php.

For the ldap profile, you should set hostname, port. You must also indicate in adminUserDn and adminPassword, the DN (Distinguished Name) and the password of the user that have enough rights to query the directory (to search a user, to get his attributes, his groups etc...).

Example of a profile for the ldap connection:

[ldap:myldapdao]
hostname=localhost
port=389
adminUserDn="cn=admin,ou=admins,dc=acme"
adminUserPassword="Sup3rP4ssw0rd"

Here the profile is named myldapdao so you should set ldapprofile=myldapdao into authldap.coord.ini.php.

Configuration properties for login checking

Starting from 2.0.0, the login process has changed, to take care of various ldap structure and server configuration.

To verify the password, the plugin needs the DN (Distinguished Name) corresponding to the user. It builds the DN from a "template" indicated into the bindUserDN property, and from various data:

• From the login given by the user. Example: bindUserDN="uid=%%LOGIN%%,ou=users,dc=XY,dc=fr" where %%LOGIN%% is replaced by the login given by the user.
• Or from one of the ldap attributes of the user. In this case, the plugin query the ldap directory with the searchUserFilter filter, to retrieve the user's ldap attributes.
  • Example with one attribute value which is part of the DN: bindUserDN="uid=%?%,ou=users,dc=XY,dc=fr". Here it replaces the %?% by the value of the uid attribute readed from the search result. Note: the attribute name should be present into the searchAttributes configuration property, even with no field mapping. Ex: ...,uid:,...
  • Example with an attribute that contains the full DN: bindUserDN="$dn". Here it takes the dn attribute readed from the search result, and use its full value as the DN to login against the ldap server. It is useful for some LDAP server like Active Directory that need a full DN specific for each user. Note: the attribute name should be present into the searchAttributes configuration property, even with no field mapping. Ex: ...,dn:,...

The searchUserFilter should contain the ldap query, and a %%LOGIN%% placeholder that will be replaced by the login given by the user.

Example: searchUserFilter="(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%%LOGIN%%))"

You may also indicate the base DN for the search, into searchUserBaseDN. Example: searchUserBaseDN="ou=ADAM users,o=Microsoft,c=US".

Note that you can indicate several search filter or dn templates, if you have complex ldap structure. Use [] to indicate an item list

searchUserFilter[]="(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%%LOGIN%%))"
searchUserFilter[]="(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(cn=%%LOGIN%%))"

bindUserDN[]="uid=%?%,ou=users,dc=XY,dc=fr"
bindUserDN[]="cn=%?%,ou=users,dc=XY,dc=fr"

Configuration properties for user data

When a user is authenticated with the ldap, but it is not registered into the list of users of Jelix, the plugin creates automatically an account into the application.

To achieve this goal, it needs which ldap attributes to take, and in which database field to store these attribute values. You indicate such informations into the searchAttributes property. It is a pair of names, <ldap attribute>:<table field>, separated by a comma.

In this example, searchAttributes="uid:login,givenName,sn:lastname,mail:email,dn:":

• the value of the uid ldap attribute will be stored into the login field
• the value of the sn ldap attribute will be stored into the lastname field
• the value of the givenName ldap attribute will be stored into a field that have the same name, as there is no field name nor :.
• there will not be mapping for the dn property. There is a : without field name. It will be readed from ldap, and can be used into the bindUserDN DN template.

The possible list of possible fields is indicated into the dao file, whose name is indicated into the dao configuration property.

Configuration properties for user rights

If you have configured groups rights into your application, and if these groups match your ldap groups, you can indicate to the plugin to automatically put the user into the application groups, according to the user ldap groups.

You should then indicate into searchGroupFilter the ldap query that will retrieve the groups of the user.

Example: searchGroupFilter="(&(objectClass=posixGroup)(member=%%USERDN%%))"

%%USERDN%% is replaced by the user dn.%%LOGIN%% is replaced by the login.
You can also use any ldap attributes you indicate into searchAttributes, between %%. Example: searchGroupFilter="(&(objectClass=posixGroup)(member=%%givenName%%))"

Warning : setting searchGroupFilter will remove the user from any other application groups that don't match the ldap group. If you don't want a groups synchronization, leave searchGroupFilter empty.

With searchGroupProperty, you must indicate the ldap attribute that contains the group name. Ex: searchGroupProperty="cn".

You may also indicate the base DN for the search, into searchGroupBaseDN. Example: searchGroupBaseDN="ou=Groups,dc=Acme,dc=pt".