Hello
I have an application that is working.
Now i want to have a login page to make the authentication using ldap.
How can i do that with rails?
What is the best library/extension to do that?
Thanks
regards
Ruby’s net_ldap library works great for this.
I found it but it doens not have any information.
Could you tell me how can I install and use it?
Jamey C. wrote:
Ruby’s net_ldap library works great for this.
Thank you
Ive just installed it and i am gonna to try now.
regards
Jamey C. wrote:
IIRC, you can do a gem install ruby_net_ldap. Google for something like
“rails ldap authenticate” and you should be able to find examples of
using
it. Basically, you can just call it’s bind method and if that is
successful, you know that you have authenticated.
IIRC, you can do a gem install ruby_net_ldap. Google for something like
“rails ldap authenticate” and you should be able to find examples of
using
it. Basically, you can just call it’s bind method and if that is
successful, you know that you have authenticated.
A bit late, but for those who might search the archives, I like
acts_as_ldap_authenticated (for my rails 1.2.6 site)
http://www.noitulove.ch/ldap-authentication-plugin-for-rails/ As the
post
indicates, it is largely a drop in replacement for the
acts_as_authenticated
plugin.
But if you also use Oracle, there is a library conflict. See this for
the
work around (require ‘ldap’ before the rails boot line in
environment.rb)
http://lists.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/2006-April/032583.html
Cynthia K.
[email protected]
I’ve just used Net-LDAP, but not before wasting lots of time trying to
get ActiveLDAP working. For me, a relatively new RoR user, I never
found a single place with complete documentation on how to set it up
in a Rails app. The docs for Net-LDAP had the best examples for me, as
I’m only after simple auth. I don’t need a full OO API to build a dir
management system which ActiveLDAP promises.
http://rubyfurnace.com/docs/ruby-net-ldap-0.0.4/
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoAuthenticateWithRubyNetLdap
http://www.rich-waters.com/blog/2007/02/using-domino-logins-ldap-for-a-ruby-on-rails-app.html
Hal F.'s (great) book The Ruby Way has a page on interfacing to
LDAP - I took his advice and investigated all of them to form my own
opinion. Hal also mentions acts_as_authenticated in The Rails Way
(also great) which gave me clues for where the code goes in my app.
George
On Jan 17, 2008 7:10 AM, scootiePuff [email protected] wrote:
thank you.
I have an application that is working.
Now i want to have a login page to make the authentication using ldap.
How can i do that with rails?
What is the best library/extension to do that?
–
George Bray, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
from this page,
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/ldap
i see that there are at least three different ways for rails to
implement ldap:
- Net-LDAP - Pure Ruby LDAP API
- Ruby/LDAP - Interface to some common LDAP libraries
- ActiveLDAP - the ActiveRecord way
-what are some advantages of each over the others? disadvantages?
-comparative ease of use in setting up and maintenance? finding
resources on the net and books?
-what factors contributed in your choice of which implementation to go
with?
it seems from some postings in this group that folks seem to recommend
either net_ldap and/or activeldap for ldap authentication with rails.
why?
thank you.
From: “Jamey C.” [email protected]
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:01:14 -0400
Local: Wed, Oct 24 2007 6:01 am
Ruby’s net_ldap library works great for this.
On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 12:10 -0800, scootiePuff wrote:
-what are some advantages of each over the others? disadvantages?
-comparative ease of use in setting up and maintenance? finding
resources on the net and books?
-what factors contributed in your choice of which implementation to go
with?it seems from some postings in this group that folks seem to recommend
either net_ldap and/or activeldap for ldap authentication with rails.
why?
I don’t know, I use ruby/LDAP for authentication. It was the
first/easiest method I got to work, it’s part of rpmforge packages so it
installs easy on RHEL/CentOS/Fedora and it has just worked.
Craig
i see that there are at least three different ways for rails to
implement ldap:
- Net-LDAP - Pure Ruby LDAP API
- Ruby/LDAP - Interface to some common LDAP libraries
- ActiveLDAP - the ActiveRecord way
-what are some advantages of each over the others? disadvantages?
ActiveLDAP is higher level - it depends on Ruby/LDAP for the low level
LDAP interactions and then builds a ruby object corresponding to your
LDAP object. If you want to display your LDAP information on your
Rails-based web site, it is the way to go. If you are just going to
use LDAP for authenticating users, it is overkill.
As I mentioned previously, if your site is Rails 1.x,
acts_as_ldap_authenticated was a drop in replacement for
acts_as_authenticated. I don’t know how much fiddling it will take to
get that plugin to work in Rails 2.0, but I will probably find out in
the next 2-3 months when I convert some sites.
Oops, of course The Rails Way is by Obie F… A great reference.