Hi Stephen,

The best thing to do is attach it to a Jira issue.  Could you please
open one and attach it?

Looking forward to it!

Cheers,

Les

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Gorman, Stephen A.
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I faced this same problem myself. I have an intellij project that is a
> good example of how to create/use an LDAP realm. In fact what it does is
> choose between two configured realms one a local ShiroDbReal and the
> other LDAP. If your new to grails/groovy this is a good learning tool. I
> based it off of the Scott Davis (IBM) blogito tutorial. I create some
> default users that are not the plain ShiroUser but it is a trivial
> modification. For my purposes I had to extend the
>
> class ShiroUser extends com.saic.hub.HubUser
>
> but again, I think you will find it elementary to see the effect. In the
> end it is just a tweaked user class for my purposes and could be done
> incorrectly but there you go.
>
> When you run the app with grails run-app it will default to the
> ShiroDbRealm. If you create a file called
>
> file:${userHome}/.authprototype/user_config.groovy
>
> in that file put
>
> ldap.ldapUrls = 'ldap://localhost:389/'
> ldap.search.base = 'ou=YOURVALUE,dc=YOURVALUE,dc=YOURVALUE,dc=
> YOURVALUE'
> ldap.search.user = "YOURVALUE"
> ldap.search.pass = "YOURVALUE"
> ldap.username.attribute = "YOURVALUE"
> ldap.skip.credentialsCheck = false
> ldap.allowEmptyPasswords = false
> hub.auth.realmName = "ShiroLDAPRealm"
>
>
> the hub.auth.realmName should be set to whatever name is created by
> grails create-ldap-realm. I changed mine around some and ended up with
> ShiroLDAPRealm. The casing is off from the original.
>
>
> It will load your LDAP realm. The important value to trigger ldap
> loading is
> hub.auth.realmName. To test the application delete this line. It will
> load the ShiroDbRealm and you can login with the dummy users created in
> bootstrap. Once you have that working and understand it put the line
> back in the user_config.groovy file. This will override the default
> value that is in Config.groovy and load the LDAP realm. As long as you
> have the LDAP settings correct ( that was the really hard part for me )
> you should be good.
>
>
> I guess the question now is how do I get it to you? I will send this
> message first with nothing attached and try a separate message with the
> app. If it bounces we can go from there.
>
> sg
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> shiro-user-return-1140-stephen.a.gorman=saic....@incubator.apache.org
> [mailto:[email protected]
> e.org] On Behalf Of Les Hazlewood
> Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 2:58 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Confusion with the LDAP Realm
>
> Hi Philippe,
>
> You've made a great point - please open up a Jira issue so we can
> track this.  If there is a way to achieve generic LDAP implementation,
> we'll work to have it in the 1.0 release.
>
> I wasn't the original author of the AbstractLdapRealm hierarchy, so I
> wasn't very familiar with its implementation strategy.  Any pointers
> or things that you see could be improved, please include them in the
> Jira issue comments.  Of course, if you have any implementations or
> patches or test cases, those would be great as a Jira attachment as
> well (if possible).  Anything helpful is appreciated!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Les
>
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Philippe Laflamme <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Shiro world,
>>
>> I'm looking for an example LDAP Realm configuration and cannot seem to
> find
>> anyting. Please point me to some example if there is one.
>>
>> I've looked at the source and it seems that there is no implementation
> of an
>> LDAP Realm. The only concrete implementation is the
> ActiveDirectoryRealm (I
>> understand AD is similar to LDAP, but it's not == to LDAP). The
> closest LDAP
>> Realm I can see is AbstractLDAPRealm, which is... well... Abstract!
>>
>> When I read that Shiro supports LDAP realms I figured I could point it
> to my
>> server, specify the structure of my LDAP (DNs and so forth) and bingo!
> I'd
>> be able to authenticate against it. I understand that authorization
> (role
>> and permission mapping) is another matter, but authentication should
> be
>> straightforward... no?
>>
>> I'm no LDAP/AD expert, so am I missing something?
>>
>> Looking at the ActiveDirectoryRealm, I can see that the
>> queryForAuthenticationInfo method is not AD-specific. Could it not
> belong to
>> a DefaultLDAPRealm of some sort?
>>
>> BTW, Atlassian Crowd has some examples of connecting to "Generic LDAP
>> Directories"
>> http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CROWD/Generic+LDAP+Directories
> here
>> .
>> --
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> l
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>>
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