State of the Nation: Drupal + LDAP
sidharth_k - October 7, 2009 - 13:51
| Project: | LDAP integration |
| Version: | 6.x-1.0-beta1 |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | support request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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Description
Hi,
I have a potential client that uses Active Directory. I would like to know how LDAP integration module from Drupal and Active Directory go together.
This is more a "sense" of the situation question. While I have seen discussions (recent and older ones) taking about successes and frustration with AD I really can come to a conclusion.
In general:
AD+Drupal?
(a) Easy?
(b) Buggy but doable
(c) Don't even try?
(d) *** some other take **
An answer, even if very long would really help.
Thanks,
Sidharth
#1
I'm using this module to connect to a Windows 2003 AD server. It works great for authentication and role assignment. Users login and are authenticated with AD, they have a new user account created in Drupal. I've set it up to map 'memberOf' property of AD to the Drupal Role so I can assign special permissions to users based on that attribute.
I also am pulling in some profile data such as mobile/business phone and office location and display that on the Drupal profile page.
Over all its working good for me without a problem.
I'm not sure what the status of a true 1.0 release is, Seems usable, although I don't use all the feature of this module.
#2
Thank you very much for spending the time in writing this answer! It was very useful for me.