Redmine

andy copsey wrote:

I'm a newbie to a lot of this and would greatly appreciate some basic guidance. Have installed redmine bitnami stack 0.8.5 which AFAIK is running mysql. redmine works, emails work, adding users works and I can add and edit issues. However I cannot get active directory to work. Ideally - I want to assign existing security groups to projects, but it would be good just to be able to authenticate individual users (one step at a time!)

I don't understand the ldap settings page and cannot relate the contents of the fields to info I can get from the sbs server. Have created a new authentication mode and pressing on the test - it reports successful connection - so it is correct to that point. However having changed my user login to use this rather than local authentication - I cannot login. I presume it is failing to find me as a user in AD.

In our server - the active directory structure in the server damager looks like this
advanced management |active directory users and computers |coppo23.local |MyBusiness |Users |SBSUsers
Fred
andy
sid
etc

From this - how do I work out the distinguished name entry for redmine?

I have attached a screen shot of the redmine page

Secondly - one to look at later perhap - is the idea of linking existing security groups to projects possible for someone with limited experience and if so can you point me at info to do this. (I am a general engineer with lots of embedded experience - but specifically no background in ruby, apache and sql!)

Any help greatly appreciated.

Coppo

I have done some more testing using softerra tools and thought I was getting somewhere - still not far enough though.

If I navigate to the users pot in softerra ldap admin tool a typical user - me in this case - has a distinguished name as follows
distinguishedName: CN=myname,OU=SBSUsers,OU=Users,OU=MyBusiness,DC=ADI,DC=local

I still don't know exactly what to enter for the base DN in redmine - I currently have

OU=SBSUsers,OU=Users,OU=MyBusiness,DC=ADI,DC=local

In redmine attributes Login I have sAMAccountName and I have checked in softerra that this exactly matches the login name myname.

Turning on logging in windows event monitor I am seeing error 525 - name not found.

I have set up an account and password for redmine authentication mode as I discovered without it - I was getting a binding error reported in event viewer.

HELP! There has to be someone out there who has been through this pain before and sorted it!

Sorted active directory at long last.

The only thing that was wrong is that the account needs to be formatted as a distinguished name - not a login name. Grrr. The base name didn't really matter as long as it included the location where all the users where located.

See attached file.