mod_ldap_userdir v1.1.10
mod_ldap_userdir is a module that enables the Apache web server to look up user home directories (for /~user URLs) from an LDAP directory.
- Sections
- 1. Author 2. Licensing 3. How do I install and set up mod_ldap_userdir? 4. Changes 5. To Do 6. Thanks
1. Author
John Morrissey, <jwm@horde.net>,
http://horde.net/~jwm/software/mod_ldap_userdir/. Feedback is much
appreciated. If you're using mod_ldap_userdir successfully, are having
problems getting mod_ldap_userdir up and running at your site, or have some
code improvements or ideas for development, please let me know!
2. Licensing
mod_ldap_userdir is licensed under the GPL, with an exception to allow for linking against OpenSSL:
The linking of mod_ldap_userdir with OpenSSL is allowed. You may distribute the resulting executable without including the source code for OpenSSL in the source distribution.
3. How do I install and set up mod_ldap_userdir?
- gzip -dc mod_ldap_userdir-1.1.10.tar.gz | tar xf -
- cd mod_ldap_userdir-1.1.10
- ./configure --with-activate
- make
- make install
If the installation fails and you manually copy mod_userdir_ldap.so into place, you will need to add something like:
LoadModule ldap_userdir_module modules/mod_ldap_userdir.so
to your httpd.conf.
- If your LDAP server runs OpenLDAP 1.x, you need to add the posixAccount schema definition. Add the contents of posixAccount-objectclass to your slapd.oc.conf and restart your LDAP server. OpenLDAP 2.x (and most other LDAP servers) ship with this schema predefined.
- The 'user-ldif' file contains a sample user ldif. Modify it to your liking and say ldapadd -D your-root-dn -w your-root-dn-password < ldif
- You are strongly encouraged to read up on the LDAP config-file
directives in the DIRECTIVES file, included with the distribution.
At bare minimum, you'll need LDAPUserDir and LDAPUserDirBaseDN directives. If you are not binding anonymously to your LDAP server, you must also include LDAPUserDirDNInfo.
A set of basic mod_ldap_userdir configuration directives would look like:
LDAPUserDir public_html
LDAPUserDirDNInfo cn=your-dn,dc=example,dc=com dnpass
LDAPUserDirBaseDN ou=People,dc=example,dc=com
Of course, you will need to update these configuration directives with the proper values for your environment.
4. Changes
v1.1.10:
* Apache 2.2 support. Thanks to Hiroto Kagotani <hiroto.kagotani@gmail.com>
and Takeshi Inagaki <ts-inagaki@kmn.co.jp> for reporting this.
* Refined LDAP over TLS support. Thanks to Hiroto Kagotani
<hiroto.kagotani@gmail.com> and Takeshi Inagaki <ts-inagaki@kmn.co.jp>
for reporting problems when building in non-TLS mode.
* Sun/Solaris LDAP SDK support. Thanks to Takeshi Inagaki
<ts-inagaki@kmn.co.jp> for reporting this.
* Better sanity checking of the timeout value. Thanks to Italo Foppiano
Reyes <ifoppian@udec.cl> for reporting a problem with this.
v1.1.9:
* Add LDAPUserDirServerURL directive, which takes a single LDAP URL
argument. Suggested by Fabien Picarougne
<fabien.picarougne@polytech.univ-nantes.fr>.
* Register a configuration merge handler so directives from the main
server (outside a VirtualHost) are merged down and treated as overridable
defaults inside VirtualHosts. Errant behavior reported by Alexander Perlis
<alexanderperlis@yahoo.com>.
* Fix building with Apache1.
* Build system improvements:
- Build with LDAP TLS support automatically, if present.
- Use proper build path to mod_ldap_userdir.so with Apache2 builds.
- Improve autoconf usage.
- Drop autoconf support for Netscape LDAP SDK. autoconf support for it was broken, and I can't find anyone still using it.
v1.1.8:
* Add caching support (with accompanying LDAPUserDirCacheTimeout directive),
reducing the number of LDAP searches that need to be performed.
v1.1.7:
* Add LDAPUserDirHomeAttribute attribute instead of depending on a
build-time change to switch the homeDirectory attribute's name, loosely
based on code by O'Shaughnessy Evans <shaug@wumpus.org>.
* Now running module/child init handlers for Apache 2, too.
* Remove child exit handler; I can't find a good way to replicate this
with Apache 2's hooks and it's not really necessary anyway, since the
connection will be closed on child exit.
v1.1.6:
* Fix Apache 2-ism that crept into v1.1.5. Tohru Murakami
<murakami-toru.nospam@nexs.nec.co.jp> and Jerome Spenlehauer
<j.spenlehauer@calixo.net>.
v1.1.5:
* Add suexec hooks for Apache 2, contributed by Marc Lewis <marc@blarg.net>.
v1.1.4:
* Fixed bug that prevented startup if LDAPUserDirSearchScope was configured.
v1.1.3:
* Fixed Apache2-isms that crept into 1.1.2.
v1.1.2:
* Update the mod_ldap_userdir version added by ap_add_version_component.
* Build fixes for Netware and Win32 by Guenter Knauf <gk@gknw.de>.
* Support for wildcards and redirection by Shyokou Ouyou
<shyokou@scientist.com>.
v1.1.1:
* Compilation fix for platforms that don't define TRUE in their headers.
v1.1:
* Apache 2.x support. Thanks to Shane Boulter (sboulter at ariasolutions dot
com) for providing an account with which I could implement Apache 2.x
support.
* Improved build system.
* Got rid of dependency on ldap_build_filter(), which will fix builds against
OpenLDAP 2.1.x, Novell eDirectory and a couple others.
* Postcard-ware licensing addition.
v1.0.1:
* Fixed a couple hard-coded references to the "homeDirectory" attr. (Thanks
to Christian Zoffoli [czoffoli at xmerlin dot org] for pointing this out.)
v1.0:
* Initial revision of standalone module. mod_ldap_userdir includes the same
functionality as apache-userdirldap 1.5 and adds TLS/SSL support for
connections to the LDAP server.
5. To Do
- Currently, nothing.
6. Thanks
- Everyone who's downloaded, used, and/or offered feedback.