Comments on: At UC.edu, Blackboard Loves LDAP! http://mattsprinsky.com/blog/2008/12/12/blackboard-loves-ldap/ The life of a photographer, artist, sysadmin, explorer and backyard philosopher. Mon, 12 Jul 2010 04:38:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: matt http://mattsprinsky.com/blog/2008/12/12/blackboard-loves-ldap/comment-page-1/#comment-6857 matt Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:19:43 +0000 http://mattsprinsky.com/blog/?p=122#comment-6857 Just for the record, I DID end up writing my own password reset functionality. Which was a ROYAL hack, and it's pretty ugly. But it works! Just for the record, I DID end up writing my own password reset functionality. Which was a ROYAL hack, and it’s pretty ugly. But it works!

]]> By: matt http://mattsprinsky.com/blog/2008/12/12/blackboard-loves-ldap/comment-page-1/#comment-2192 matt Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:40:26 +0000 http://mattsprinsky.com/blog/?p=122#comment-2192 Oh, and as far as adapting this for Capital, it's not a 5 minute change but I think it's quite possible. I'll need to diddle with your LDAP server and my LDAP server browser before I can say for sure. Oh, and as far as adapting this for Capital, it’s not a 5 minute change but I think it’s quite possible. I’ll need to diddle with your LDAP server and my LDAP server browser before I can say for sure.

]]> By: matt http://mattsprinsky.com/blog/2008/12/12/blackboard-loves-ldap/comment-page-1/#comment-2191 matt Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:38:43 +0000 http://mattsprinsky.com/blog/?p=122#comment-2191 My testing on Blackboard 8.0 SP3 shows that the 'default' password change URL "/webapps/blackboard/password" shows a message that "Blackboard does not handle the current authentication method"... true for LDAP accounts, but not true for the accounts that still only live in the database. Capital is an LDAP school and suffers from the same issue that the test system does - there's a password reset facility, it's just not Blackboard's facility. I hope that makes sense. My testing on Blackboard 8.0 SP3 shows that the ‘default’ password change URL “/webapps/blackboard/password” shows a message that “Blackboard does not handle the current authentication method”… true for LDAP accounts, but not true for the accounts that still only live in the database.

Capital is an LDAP school and suffers from the same issue that the test system does – there’s a password reset facility, it’s just not Blackboard’s facility.

I hope that makes sense.

]]> By: Autumm http://mattsprinsky.com/blog/2008/12/12/blackboard-loves-ldap/comment-page-1/#comment-2189 Autumm Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:59:16 +0000 http://mattsprinsky.com/blog/?p=122#comment-2189 Well I'm not support so forgive me for jumping in here but.... First off I love it, very cool functionality and I would love to see something similar for Cap. If it can be easily tweaked on your end lets talk about it after things calm down for you all over there... if it requires a bunch of time then I could potentially put someone on our end but things are crazy over here too and I don't see being able to put anyone other than a student on it till at least Summer semester... which is fine there is not a big rush. Second, you mention here that the "the built-in password reset functionality is not available when bb-config.properties is configured for LDAP authentication." However we have been authenticating off of LDAP for some time now and we still have that password reset available... it does not work so yes the functionality is not there as LDAP overrides whatever the user would reset their password to, but it is still there and is a bit confusing for those that stumble upon it. Do you mean that the functionality is not there or that the reset is not available at all? Is there a way to turn it off so that users do not see something that does not function. Thanks, Well I’m not support so forgive me for jumping in here but….

First off I love it, very cool functionality and I would love to see something similar for Cap. If it can be easily tweaked on your end lets talk about it after things calm down for you all over there… if it requires a bunch of time then I could potentially put someone on our end but things are crazy over here too and I don’t see being able to put anyone other than a student on it till at least Summer semester… which is fine there is not a big rush.

Second, you mention here that the “the built-in password reset functionality is not available when bb-config.properties is configured for LDAP authentication.” However we have been authenticating off of LDAP for some time now and we still have that password reset available… it does not work so yes the functionality is not there as LDAP overrides whatever the user would reset their password to, but it is still there and is a bit confusing for those that stumble upon it. Do you mean that the functionality is not there or that the reset is not available at all? Is there a way to turn it off so that users do not see something that does not function.

Thanks,

]]>