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Re: memberof overlay in ldap?



On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 09:47:49PM +0200, Dominik George wrote:
> Hi Simon,
> 
> > We're trying to connect an owncloud (nextcloud soon) server to the ldap
> > of the tjener, but we probably need the memberof overly in the ldap
> > database (see for an example
> > http://blog.adimian.com/2014/10/how-to-enable-memberof-using-openldap/)
> > 
> > Though I'm a sysadmin, I'm not familiar with ldap and I don't know if
> > this is possible in the tjener without breaking anything.
> > Has anyone tried this, or does anyone know if this will break the tjener
> > functionality?
> 
> No, adding the memberOf overlay will not break anything.
> 
> The overlay does not actually touch any data. It tracks changes to the members 
> of groups, and returns its knowledge when asked for it specifically.
> 
> The memberOf attribute will also not show up in any results unless added to 
> the attribute list specifically when querying the LDAP server.
> 
> While this answers your question, I'd like to ask why you think this is needed 
> for ownCloud/nextCloud. I did not need it in any of the ownCloud/LDAP 
> installations I set up so far.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nik
> 

Hi did you succeed? I struggled a lot with the fact that I got only
Admin or Teachers or Students LDAP imported into Owncloud, but not
all of them, because these users groups are in different positions
in the LDAP tree.

Regards

Giorgio
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