Enabling LDAP authentication in Dataverse 3.6.2

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Hi.
How can I configure and enable LDAP authentication and still maintain the existing default login?

Thanks in advance.

Ofuuzo

Philip Durbin

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Hi Ofuuzo,

DVN does not support LDAP but there is a fork that does according to http://ualbertalib.github.io/dvn/overview/release-notes.html

I don't know much about this fork but I did leave a suggestion in their issue tracker that they work with the Dataverse development team on figuring out how best to contribute code such as LDAP support upstream: https://github.com/ualbertalib/dvn/issues/6

Also, you might be interested in the dvn-auth list. Here's the introductory message: https://lists.iq.harvard.edu/pipermail/dvn-auth/2013-September/000000.html

I'll tell you what... since we recently enabled a "Me, too!" button for this Google Group I'll ask anyone who's interested in LDAP support to go to your message and click "Me, too!": https://groups.google.com/d/msg/dataverse-community/G6e-9Zz-bPY/f-VcnFByjwkJ :)

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Hi Phil,
Thanks for the reply. I contacted Ualbethalib. Their implementation only allows LDAP users to login for now. I need help for an implementation that can enable LDAP authentication and still maintain the existing default login.

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Ofuuzo

kl. 14:57:24 UTC+2 torsdag 8. mai 2014 skrev Philip Durbin følgende:

Hi Ofuuzo,

DVN does not support LDAP but there is a fork that does according to http://ualbertalib.github.io/dvn/overview/release-notes.html

I don't know much about this fork but I did leave a suggestion in their issue tracker that they work with the Dataverse development team on figuring out how best to contribute code such as LDAP support upstream: https://github.com/ualbertalib/dvn/issues/6

Also, you might be interested in the dvn-auth list. Here's the introductory message: https://lists.iq.harvard.edu/pipermail/dvn-auth/2013-September/000000.html

I'll tell you what... since we recently enabled a "Me, too!" button for this Google Group I'll ask anyone who's interested in LDAP support to go to your message and click "Me, too!": https://groups.google.com/d/msg/dataverse-community/G6e-9Zz-bPY/f-VcnFByjwkJ :)

Phil

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Hi.
How can I configure and enable LDAP authentication and still maintain the existing default login?

Thanks in advance.

Ofuuzo

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That makes sense. In implementing Shibboleth support we certainly
won't remove the ability to also have local accounts. I can understand
a desire to have LDAP support work the same way.

I don't know if anyone from University of Alberta Libraries on this
list but if you are... hello! I'm excited you're in there looking at
and improving the Dataverse code!

Phil

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I have just joined this group. Yes, I will take a look when I have a chance. Can you point me packages that I should be looking at? Thanks,

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Hi Piyapong!

Thanks for joining the group! When you say "package" I assume you mean
you'd like to see a Java package like edu.harvard.iq.dataverse.auth or
something... and in that "auth" package there would be sub-packages
for...

- local
- shibboleth
- ldap
- etc.

... is that what you mean? We don't currently have this in Dataverse
4.0 beta ( https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse ) but it's something I'd
like to see. Or at least some way to make auth "pluggable", if that
makes sense...

Oh, for auth discussion in particular, we also have a dedicated
mailing list ( https://lists.iq.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/dvn-auth
) but everyone is welcome to talk about auth here too. :)

Phil

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Yes, I meant java packages. I think it is a good idea to develop pluggable module for authentication. We have also decided to allow public user to create an account on our dataverse web site. So, I will modify our LDAP login to support it.

I will subscribe to the mailing list.

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Sounds great! Please keep us posted, Piyapong!

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Hi Piyapong (and everyone interested in LDAP support),

I just wanted to make sure you saw this:

https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/blob/master/doc/Architecture/auth.md

It's our proposed design for pluggable auth, announced a few days ago at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/dataverse-community/ieRom3fCDs4/Uu8HLHPo4WAJ

Please take a look to see if you think it would be relatively straightforward to add LDAP support given that design.

Thanks!

Phil

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