Topic on Extension talk:LDAP Authentication

Hi all,

Not all users in LDAP are authorized to own an user account in my MediaWiki. I already have users logging in because I created their accounts before installing LDAP Plugin. Now, I need to create accounts for new employees and I always receive the message "Username entered already in use. Please choose a different name.", through Special:CreateAccount.

Obviously, If I disable all LDAP configuration in LocalSettings, I'm able to create a local user account with the same LDAP username. Then , if I enable LDAP configuration again, the user is recognized with LDAP password and he can log in. The fact is that I don't want to edit LocalSettings every time I have a new employee.

My configuration is below. Thanks in advance.

require_once ('.../extensions/LdapAuthentication/LdapAuthentication.php');

$wgAuth = new LdapAuthenticationPlugin();

$wgLDAPDomainNames = array( 'AD' );

$wgLDAPServerNames = array( 'AD' => 'url' );

$wgLDAPUseLocal = false;

$wgLDAPEncryptionType = array( 'AD' => 'clear' );

$wgLDAPPort = array( 'AD' => 389 );

$wgLDAPProxyAgent = array( 'AD' => 'CN=a,OU=b,DC=c,DC=d' );

$wgLDAPProxyAgentPassword = array( 'UFPE-AD' => 'password' );

$wgLDAPSearchAttributes = array( 'AD' => 'description' );

$wgLDAPBaseDNs = array( 'AD' => 'DC=c,DC=d' );

$wgLDAPDisableAutoCreate = array( 'AD' => true );

$wgLDAPPreferences = array( 'AD' => array( 'email' => 'mail', 'realname' => 'cn','nickname' => 'givenname') );

$wgLDAPLowerCaseUsername = array( 'AD' => true);

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;

MediaWiki: 1.29.1

PHP: 5.5.21 (apache2handler)

PostgreSQL: 9LDAP

If I understand correctly, the `Special:CreateAccount` page will actually atempt to create an account (in your AD!). But the account already exists (in the AD)..

But if I understand correctly, with `$wgGroupPermissions['*']['autocreateaccount'] = true;` the accounts will be auto-created in the database on first log in. So you just need to make sure the account is available in AD and then tell the user to sign in to you wiki instance.

This is confusing. Are you saying that once you have LDAP connected that you can't create local accounts in the wiki instance? We have users that need to access the wiki that don't belong to our LDAP groups. So I was hoping to create accounts directly on the wiki server...