Dspace Active directory Ldap Auth

[Мухаметали Кусайынов]

Hello dear Dspace community! I can not solve one problem for 4 months, and I ask you for help!
I installed Dspace 7.4 on an Ubuntu 20.04 virtual private server.
Now I would like students to login to Dspace via Active Directory LDAP. But the problem is that our system administrators only know about the Windows Server OS and are not familiar with the Linux OS. So they don't know how to link Active Directory to Ubuntu server.
I have found several guides. And it says that you need to install the OpenLDAP server.
But if I understand correctly, then this is necessary for authorization in Ubuntu OS. But I want to login to Dspace 7.4 not Ubuntu.
Therefore, I would like to ask you:
1) Do I need to install OpenLDAP on Ubuntu
2) If so, how then to link OpenLDAP with Dspace 7.4? So that Dspace can look up a user in Active Directory?
3) If I don't need to install OpenLDAP, what should I do to make Dspace 7.4 on Ubuntu look for users in the Windows Server Active Directory?
Please suggest specific steps how to solve this problem please!
Thank you very much.
Sincerely, Mukhametali.

[DSpace Developers]

Hi,

We have detailed LDAP authentication instructions in our documentation at https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/Authentication+Plugins#AuthenticationPlugins-LDAPAuthentication

You do NOT need OpenLDAP installed for DSpace to work.  However, OpenLDAP can be useful to debug the correct configurations for DSpace to talk to your LDAP.  See the debugging notes here: https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/Authentication+Plugins#AuthenticationPlugins-DebuggingLDAPconnectionandconfiguration

Unfortunately, *every* LDAP is slightly different.  So, it can be very useful to debug your settings via OpenLDAP and then copy those settings over into your DSpace configurations.

If you find that the instructions in our documentation are not working for you, then you may want to document what you've tried to do, and what the results were.  You also should use the troubleshooting guide to look for errors in your logs (as those errors might provide hints as to which settings may be wrong for your setup): https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSPACE/Troubleshoot+an+error#Troubleshootanerror-DSpace7.x(orabove)

Good luck,

Tim

[Мухаметали Кусайынов]

Hi! Thank you very much! I'm setting it up now. I will write in detail what I did if everything works out for me.

ср, 5 июл. 2023 г. в 22:50, DSpace Developers <dspace...@googlegroups.com>:

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