I understand, I guess do the best you can, sorry you are losing office space, 
if would've have been in NYC, we could have helped you with it :)

I've also sent an email asking for help with scheduled tasks, perhaps someone 
can respond.

Regards
ilya

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Duffy [mailto:i...@ianduffy.ie]
> Sent: Friday, July 26, 2013 1:10 PM
> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
> Subject: RE: [GSoC] (Screencast/Demo) LDAP user provisioning
> 
> Hi llya,
> 
> Apologies in advanced for lack of formatting, currently replying from mobile.
> 
> Those UI features are present in 4.2 under LDAP configuration within global
> settings as far as I am aware. They are buggy if I remember correctly.
> 
> For deactivating users I haven't looked into it yet and have not sent out an
> email asking for help on creating a scheduled task. It is not included within
> the project proposal so I was leaving it as a 'if I have time at the end' 
> type of
> thing. I lose office space and a decent internet connection come august 20th
> so I'm pushing to get all proposed features done before then.
> 
> Check out 1:25 such messages exist.
> 
> Yes has been tested against Apache DS, openldap and active directory. I'm a
> little worried about implementing a member of filter, I've yet to figure out
> how to enable that in openldap, active directory has it by default thankfully.
> You'll need to set your LDAP attributes for active directory within global
> settings, by default they are at POSIX compliant ones... So..
> User object to user username to samAccountName.
> On 26 Jul 2013 17:20, "Musayev, Ilya" <imusa...@webmd.net> wrote:
> 
> > Ian
> >
> > Watched screencast and you did an amazing job! I want to backport this
> > into my customized 4.1 cloudstack edition called cloudsand. CloudSand
> > is a hybrid of CloudStack stable version with some urgently needed
> > features pulled from master to speed up cloudstack adoption by
> > enterprises. The work you do on LDAP will be a great addition!
> >
> > With that said, I have few questions:
> >
> > Back several months aqgo, I recall some work done on LDAP where a
> > patch was introduced to configure LDAP through UI. Not in Global
> > Settings like you did for basedn, but in separate window where you
> > defined hostname and port. Would you know what happened to that?
> > Where do you stand with scheduled task on checking which ldap users
> > have been deactivated and deactivate them in CS as well?
> > Also, it would be nice to mention "User XYZ could not be added due to
> > missing email (or whatever else is missing)".
> > Have you tried testing this on Windows AD, unfortunately, many
> > enterprises use Microsoft Active Directory.
> >
> > Thank again for improving CloudStack,
> >
> > Regards
> > -ilya
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Ian Duffy [mailto:i...@ianduffy.ie]
> > > Sent: Friday, July 26, 2013 11:52 AM
> > > To: Sebastien Goasguen; Abhinandan Prateek; CloudStack Dev
> > > Subject: [GSoC] (Screencast/Demo) LDAP user provisioning
> > >
> > > Hi Guys,
> > >
> > > The latest patch I uploaded to review board (
> > > https://reviews.apache.org/r/12969/ ) brings the "LDAP user
> > provisioning"
> > > project to a "prototype" stage.
> > >
> > > If anybody wants to give feedback the ldapplugin branch should have
> > > all features shown in the screencast once the above patch is shipped.
> > > Support still needs to be added for ldap over SSL, memberof filters
> > > and
> > only
> > > show users that exist within ldap but not cloudstack on the add user
> > screen.
> > >
> > > This includes:
> > >  - A new plugin for configuring ldap, authenticating against LDAP
> > > and
> > getting a
> > > list of users from LDAP.
> > >  - Modified UI
> > >        - Global Settings - Global LDAP configuration options.
> > > BaseDN,
> > Bind
> > > username, Bind password, etc.
> > >        - Global settings -> LDAP Configuration. Lets you add
> > > multiple
> > LDAP
> > > servers for failover support.
> > >        - Accounts -> Add Account. Brings up a table of LDAP users,
> > > lets
> > you select
> > > one to many LDAP users, set the same domain/network
> > > domain/timezone/etc. for them and create them.
> > >
> > > Quick 2min screencast at
> > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3LG8wP7Zac&hd=1 showing off
> these
> > > additions.
> > >
> > > This screencast was created using the embedded LDAP server I added
> > > in for the sake of integration tests. Its based of ApacheDS, and can
> > > be started
> > with
> > >
> > > mvn -pl plugins/user-authenticators/ldap ldap:run
> > >
> > > Thanks for all the help!
> > > Ian
> >
> >

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