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Openfire LDAP question

Submitted by rwhittaker on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 1:41pm

I have just downloaded and deployed the openfire 1.1.6 Jumpbox, and am going through the configuration of the appliance.

In the Openfire configuration, I am trying to setup LDAP authentication, but the radio button for that is greyed out. I googled the issue shutdown openfire and set true to false then restarted openfire, but did not see any setup dialogue, and the LDAP radio button is still greyed out.

Is there a module I need to install, or is there another setup step I need to take?..

Thanks,
Richard.

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Openfire LDAP question

Submitted by godber on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 4:50pm.

I have not tried the LDAP integration with OpenFire yet, but if you are trying this:

http://www.igniterealtime.org/builds/openfire/docs/latest/documentation/...

I think it should work, assuming you can figure out the appropriate LDAP settings to use. I think the problem you might be encountering is that the openfire init script does not actually stop openfire. So after you stop open fire, wait a bit and then run this command:

ps auwx | grep java

If you still see a java process that looks like its running openfire then you can get the process ID thats the second column in the output and then use:

sudo kill PID

substituting in the PID you determined above. Once that is done, then change that line in openfire.xml and start it. It should run you through setup again and you can accept the defaults it gives you since it will prepopulate the fields with the existing settings. After this was done, I had to stop then start the openfire server again, otherwise I got a authentication error when I tried to login.

As far as the JumpBox integration is concerned, I am not really sure whether it is safe to go through this setup process again. For me to say with any certainty that it is still properly integrated with the JumpBox code we would have to perform our full QA process on it. But OpenFire itself appears to work after a resetup.

Austin

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It worked!

Submitted by rwhittaker on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 12:25pm.

Hi Austin:

That worked... Looks like the openfire server was not exiting as you mentioned. I note, however, even after going through the setup I had to edit openfire.xml and set false to be true.

Thanks!
Richard.

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