Hi,

we're running Drupal with LDAP integration here on our departmental website. We validate users against one of those Active Directory server (sheesh...).

Now, we'd like to put users in groups, lists, and all that, but the problem is that not everyone has logged in once yet, and it seems incredibly hard to make that happen. That's why I wanted to ask if any of you guys have any idea how to actually create users (rather: logins) which are, if they login later, are authenticated against LDAP.

There seems to be some related buzz in the forums, e.g.,
http://drupal.org/node/539790

but I couldn't find a proper solution to it yet.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Nico

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Andrew Kaufmann’s picture

Andrew Kaufmann commented

I too am very interested in such a feature. :)

konecny82’s picture

konecny82 commented

I think there should be button "Check LDAP" or similar. It would call the script which would check LDAP against SQL database. It would check users and groups in LDAP. Then SQL database would by updated to be at the same state as LDAP is (it means one way LDAP to SQL synchronization would be done).
In fact I am not sure why data are not taken directly from LDAP (why there is copy of LDAP data in SQL database). I am sure there is any technical reason (most probably SQL table dependencies would be broken or so).
But all problems with not actual data would be gone.

cgmonroe’s picture

cgmonroe commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Clearing out old support requests - reopen if problem still exists in newest code

That said: There is a new ldapsync module in the dev version that does this.