[Mediawiki-l] LDAP authentication

[Arjun Jacob Thomas]

Hi guys,
          Back to the ldap question again.... this is what I've done.


       Extracted the following files to my wiki folder
       1) authplugin.php
       2) language.php
       3) ldapauthentication.php
	4) specialuserlogin.php
      5) user.php
       6) userlogin.php

    Of the above the only changes I made were to the
lpadauthentication.php 

if ( $wgLDAPUseSSL ) {
                        $serverpre = "ldaps://";
                } else {
                        $serverpre = "ldap://";
                }

    I inserter the IP address of my ldap server into the above code.


Next I pasted the following code into the localsettings.php file ( after
entering the information for domain, server and search string )

require_once( 'LdapAuthentication.php' );
$wgAuth = new LdapAuthenticationPlugin();
$wgLDAPDomainNames = array(
  "testADdomain","testLDAPdomain"
  );
$wgLDAPServerNames = array(
  "testADdomain"=>"testADserver.example.com",
  "testLDAPdomain"=>"testLDAPserver.example.com
testLDAPserver2.example.com"
  );
$wgLDAPSearchStrings = array(
  "testADdomain"=>"TDOMAIN\\USER-NAME",
  "testLDAPdomain"=>"uid=USER-NAME,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com"
  );
$wgLDAPUseSSL = true; //Recommended!!
$wgLDAPUseLocal = true; //Allow the use of the local database as well as
the LDAP database
$wgMinimalPasswordLength = 1; #If using mediawiki 1.5. Note: 1 is the
minimum, feel free to go higher
//The following are for use in version 0.8+
$wgLDAPAddLDAPUsers = true;  //if true WikiDN and WikiPassword must be
set
$wgLDAPUpdateLDAP = true;  //if true WikiDN and WikiPassword must be set


These last 2 variables I did not feed information into... any idea what
they do? I just want to be able to extract username and password
information of my ldap server to authenticate users , not to allow them
to make changes on the ldap server. 

$wgLDAPWikiDN = "uid=priviledgedUser,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com";
//Please use a user with limited access, NOT your directory manager
$wgLDAPWikiPassword = "{SHA}KqYKj/f81HPTIeAUav2eJt85UUc="; //You are
able to use clear text passwords, but please try not to


After I completed the above mentioned steps I tried accessing the wiki.
Now even my old user name ( on the wiki DB) does not allow me to login.
I get a blank page ).


Would appreciate any help I can get with this.... as you can see I'm
stuck..


Thanks,
AJ