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[Justas <justas@xxxxxx>]

Hi Marius,

On 10/19/2011 05:53 PM, Justas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 10/19/2011 05:38 PM, Tom Hoffman wrote:
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: muchio<marius.gricius@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 6:57 AM
> > Subject: Schooltool + LDAP setup
> > To: Tom Hoffman<tom.hoffman@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > My  institution (Military Academy of Lithuania) is currently looking for
> > Student Information System. SchoolTool has been considered as one of
> > preferable choices because it is open source, part of development team
> > is from Lithuania and it has integration with CAS.
> > Would you be so kind and provide more information about ST+LDAP
> > requirements, setup process, etc?
>
>   Sure, I'll look into that Thu morning, Lithuania time.

LDAP support
------------------

  We do not have out-of-the-box LDAP support at the moment, but we are 
considering to add at least simple support in next Ubuntu LTS (12.04)

  There is an old plug-in that adds LDAP auth support and as far as I 
can tell it should work, but it never made to "installable from software 
center" status.

  If there is a need, we could make installable LDAP available 
earlier.  Set-up would then be manually editing configuration files and 
adding something like this:

<ldap_authentication>
  host sociality.stanford.edu
  port 389
  searchScope sub
  searchBase dc=sociality,dc=org
  groupsSearchBase ou=groups
  groupsSearchScope sub
  loginAttribute uid
  idAttribute uid
  titleAttribute cn
  groupsAttribute apple-group
  groupIdAttribute apple-group-realname
</ldap_authentication>



CAS support
-----------------

  On the other hand, if you run a CAS server (http://www.jasig.org/cas 
<http://www.jasig.org/cas>), you can use schooltool.cas plug-in.

  Since it's not in Ubuntu "universe", you'll need to add schooltool 
PPA (personal package archives): 
http://book.schooltool.org/install-pre-natty.html
  schooltool.cas is available for Ubuntu Lucid/Maverick/Natty, please 
add the corresponding PPA; then install python-schooltool.cas package.

  After installing, you (as admin) will need to manually edit few files.

  Create cas.zcml in schooltool plugins directory, for example:

  $ sudo gedit /etc/schooltool/schooltool-2009/plugins/cas.zcml

  Fill it with this line:
<include package="schooltool.cas" />

  Then edit main.conf:
  $ sudo gedit /etc/schooltool/schooltool-2009/main.conf

  And add following lines at the end:

%import schooltool.cas
<cas_authority>
  server http://your/cas/server/
</cas_authority>


Hope this helps,
Justas