wiki:ActiveDirectoryAuthPlugin

Version 17 (modified by branson, 12 years ago) (diff)

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Active Directory Auth Plugin

NOTE: Major changes from 0.3

  • conf variables are renamed for standardization
  • now more directory type agnostic
  • soon will be renamed to DirectoryAuthPlugin

Description

The Active Directory Auth Plugin is a password store for the AccountManagerPlugin that provides authentication and groups from Active Directory.

Users are authenticated by performing an ldap_bind against the AD server using their credentials. The plugin will also pull the email address and display name from Active Directory and populate the session_attribute table. See Populating ''Assign To'' Drop Down in Trac for more information on why.

Groups

  • One can specify a group which users must be a member of in order to log in.
  • Additionally, one may specify an admin group. If a user is a member of the admin group, then they will automatically be granted the TRAC_ADMIN permission.
  • Finally, ActiveDirectory groups are extended into the trac namespace. They can be used to extend permissions by AD group.
    • AD groups are prefixed by @
    • group names are lowercase and spaces are replaced with underscores.

See GroupManagement for more details.

Caching

Given the expense of traversing the network for authorizations, a two-stage cache has been implemented. This caches data in the database for all instances of python, and in memory for each instance; while maintaining expiration and flushing the cache(s) as necessary. See: CacheManagement for details.

Bugs/Feature Requests

Existing bugs and feature requests for ActiveDirectoryAuthPlugin are here.

If you have any issues, create a new ticket.

Download

Download the zipped source from [download:activedirectoryauthplugin here]

Source

You can check out ActiveDirectoryAuthPlugin from here using Subversion, or browse the source with Trac.

Install

Prerequisites

Installation

Follow the Trac documentation on how to install Trac plugins

  • starting with 0.3, a database upgrade will be required as part of the installation.
    1. install the plugin and it's prerequisites
    2. update the database
      trac-admin /var/trac/instance upgrade
      
    3. restart the trac service or your webserver.

Examples

NOTE: this has changed from 0.3 to 0.4!!!'''

All config options go under the [account-manager] config heading. Options for this module are:

[account-manager]
#--to use this module with AccountManager, ADAuthStore must be enabled inside of AccountManager
password_store = ADAuthStore
#--define the Active Directory host address here.  A port other than default(389) is set as
#  ldap://hostname:port or ldaps://hostname:port
dir_uri = ldap://adserver.example.com
#-- the Active Directory's base DN to search from, this is likely just your domain
dir_basedn = DC=example,DC=com
#-- the user/password to search the directory from, it must be a valid
dir_binddn = ldapuser@example.com
dir_bindpw = ldapuserpassword
#-- timeout for an ldap operation before in seconds
dir_timeout = 5
#-- the default charset for the ldap server
dir_charset = utf-9
##### Userinfo
#-- the attribute containing the users login name, THIS MUST BE UNIQUE!
user_attr = sAMAccountName
#-- the attribute containing the users display name
name_attr = displayName
#-- the attribute containing the users email addy
email_attr = mail
##### Groups
#-- where to look for groups, uses dir_basedn if not defined.
group_basedn = ou=Groups,dc=foo,dc=net
#-- expand directory groups
group_expand = 1
#-- the name of a group .. uses user_attr if not defined. 
group_attr = cn
#-- which attribute to look in for members
group_member_attr = member
#-- what to look for in the member_attr
group_member_value = dn
#-- the dn of a group that has valid users, all users if not enabled
group_validusers = CN=Alltechs,OU=Mail enabled groups,OU=Email,DC=serverplus,DC=com
#-- the DN for a group automagically given TRAC_ADMIN
#   if this option is enabled you must specify the UserExtensiblePermissionStore as the trac permission store, such as:
#   [trac]
#   permission_store = UserExtensiblePermissionStore
group_tracadmin = CN=Administration,DC=example,DC=com
#### Cache Tuning
#-- cached entry time to live in seconds 
cache_ttl= 90
#-- memorycache size in entries, and a highwater warning mark
cache_memsize = 400
cache_memsize_warn 300
#-- memory cache prune size in percentage
cache_memprune = 5

[trac]
permission_store = UserExtensiblePermissionStore

If you are unsure of what the DNs for your groups are, you may want to use an LDAP browser to inspect your Active Directory schema to find out a group's DN.

Common Errors

If you see Trac throwing an exception similar to "OPERATIONS_ERROR: In order to perform this operation a successful bind must be completed on the connection" when you know the bind user/pass is correct you will want to try connection to active directory on port 3268. This may happen when AD is running across multiple machines.

Recent Changes

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Author/Contributors

Author: pacopablo
Maintainer: sandinak
Contributors: