anklimsk/cakephp-ldap-sync

Synchronizing information and authenticating users by LDAP for CakePHP 2.x

v1.0.4 2019-12-01 16:15 UTC

Requires

• php: >=5.4
• anklimsk/cakephp-basic-functions: ^1.0.0
• anklimsk/cakephp-config-plugin: ^1.0.0
• anklimsk/cakephp-extended-test: ^1.0.0
• anklimsk/cakephp2-theme: ^1.0.0
• cakephp/datasources: 2.3.x-dev
• composer/installers: ^1.5.0
• dereuromark/cakephp-queue: ^2.3.0
• dereuromark/cakephp-tools: ^0.12.4

MIT

• Andrey Klimov

README

Synchronizing information with LDAP and authenticating users by membership in the LDAP security group

This plugin provides next features:

• Authenticating users by membership in the LDAP security group;
• Support external authentication, e.g. kerberos;
• Checking user for compliance with roles;
• Synchronizing information from LDAP to database;
• Synchronizing information as a subordination tree of employees;
• Support for a customizable list of fields for synchronization;
• Support for customize binded information for models Employee and Department;
• Support for customize displaying information of employees.

Installation

1. Install the Plugin using composer: composer require anklimsk/cakephp-ldap-sync

2. Add the next line to the end of the file app/Config/bootstrap.php:

   CakePlugin::load('CakeLdap', ['bootstrap' => true, 'routes' => true]);

3. Open file app/Config/database.php and add connection ldap, e.g.:

       public $ldap = [
           'datasource' => 'CakeLdap.LdapExtSource',
           'persistent' => false,
           'host' => ['ldapsrv01', 'ldapsrv02'],
           'port' => 389,
           'login' => '[e-mail]',
           'password' => 'pas$w0rd',
           'database' => '',
           'basedn' => 'dc=fabrikam,dc=com',
           'type' => 'ActiveDirectory',
           'tls' => false,
           'version' => 3,
       ];

4. Copy configuration file from app/Plugin/CakeLdap/Config/cakeldap.php to app/Config.

5. Edit config file and configure plugin See Example of configuration file

6. Create database tables of plugin using the CakePHP console, run the command: Console/cake schema create -p CakeLdap

7. In your file app\Config\core.php uncomment modify next line: Configure::write('Routing.prefixes', array('admin'));

8. Copy translation files from app/Plugin/CakeLdap/Locale/rus/LC_MESSAGES/ to app/Locale/rus/LC_MESSAGES:

• cake_ldap_field_name.*;
• cake_ldap_validation_errors.*.

1. Get the name of the user that is running the web server, run the command: ps aux | grep -E '[a]pache|[h]ttpd|[_]www|[w]ww-data|[n]ginx' | grep -v root | head -1 | cut -d\ -f1.
2. Configure scripts to run schedule, run the command crontab -u www-data -e where www-data - user name for web server.
3. Add the following line to the list of cron jobs:

#
# In this example, run the synchronizing script
#  will be made every day on 7:10 AM 
10 7 * * * cd /var/www/paht_to_app/app && Console/cake CakeLdap.cron sync -q

Using

Using this plugin