[Setup] Re: Active Directory

[Nick Davis]

Larry Foster wrote:
> We are trying to setup plone to authenticate with Active Directory. We 
> have attempted to do this using many of the tuitorials from plone. But 
> we have been unsuccessful setting it up. Could anyone please help or 
> point us in the right direction on how to do this successfully. Thanks 
> in advance.

You did not say what version of Plone, or how far you got already, but 
if you install PloneLDAP you'll be able to add a ActiveDirectory plugin 
in acl_users . There is a helpful README in PloneLDAP.

The stages are,
1 get the ActiveDirectoryMultiplugin connecting to your AD so you can 
see users and groups in Zope
2 configure the ActiveDirectoryMultiplugin through the ZMI so it 
provides the functions you need in your Plone site.

That is for 2.5.x. May be subtly different for Plone 3.

HTH
Nick


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Nick Davis
Web Application Developer
University of Leicester
http://www2.le.ac.uk