ldapAdapterEXT

This extends the liferay class PortalLDAPImporterImpl by the ability of syncing the department in LDAP to organization in liferay.

In the corresponding LDAP configuration for liferay one has to set the custom user mapping

organization=department

where department is the corresponding field in LDAP. This allows the code in CustomPortalLDAPImporterImpl to access the LDAP field department.

If that field is set, the application tries to find an organization with this name.

• If such an organization exists, then will the user be added to this organization,
• otherwise it will create that organization and add the corresponding user to the organization.

Compilation

One can create the war-files with the command mvn package.

Deployment

One should deploy this plugin before all other things. It is even recommended to start with a clean database.

If custom organization mappings are to be used, ldapimporter.properties should be configured beforehand. Copy ldapAdapterEXT-ext-impl/**/resources/ldapimporter.properties to /etc/ldap-importer and adjust the settings as described therein. Properties are loaded during server startup.

Steps to do after copying the two war files to the liferay deploy folder:

1. ensure that liferay is running and that the auto-deploy-scanner has extracted and deployed the war files
2. restart liferay, i.e. the corresponding server, two to three times and wait for liferay to finish deployment, i.e. wait for the marketplace-portlet to finish

The deployment was successful if the log contains the message "Instantiate CustomPortalLDAPImporterImpl from ldapAdapterEXT plugin" and one should restart once more, if the log states that further rebooting is needed for deployment completions of this plugin.

Problems

• The user logging in via LDAP should not be owner of the on-demand created organization. A solution would be, to add an dummy user without privileges whose only purpose is to be owner of that organization.

• This plugin needs a more descriptive name.