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Yes
There is an option in one of the config files to fall back to BB
database if LDAP fails.
Thanks, Jake
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Jake Gannon
Computing Services
The University of Liverpool
External: 0151 794 4458
Internal: 44458
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From: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Andy Turner
Sent: 19 September 2007 12:02
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Subject: Re: Blackboard LDAP Authentication
Hello
I’m a non-techy and am using that as my excuse for not having
read the relevant Blackboard manual :-)
We’re planning to introduce Active Directory for
authentication to Blackboard. However we do have some Blackboard users who do
not currently have a University Active Directory account (e.g. staff and
students on franchised courses). Is it possible to have 2 sources of
authentication – Active Directory and a Blackboard user database?
A search on Behind the Blackboard found the message posted below on
the Bb Open Source Discussion Forums, which suggests that this is not possible.
The message was posted in April and has not attracted any replies, but maybe
that’s just because it’s not a very active forum. Any advice from
this group gratefully received.
Andy Turner
Online Systems Manager
Thames Valley University
Tel. 0118 967 5521
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If we would like to use LDAP(with SSL
implemented) as authentication source for Academic Suite 7.1. And we would also
like to provide a SSO solution to integrate with a Portal. i.e. User login
school portal, upon he has click a link (e.g. http:///webapps/login?bbusername=)
in his school portal, it will redirect the user to Bb Academic suite
automatically without requiring him to login again.
From ?Server Administration Guide?, we can specific using
LDAP as authentication source by setting bbconfig.auth.type=ldap in
bb-config.properties. And do proper configuration mention in the Admin guide.
Besides, we can implement Custom Authentication (which
extends BaseAuthenticationModule) to provide a SSO solution, so that user can
login Bb Academic Server directly or by clicking a link that will carry his
login id and redirect to Bb Custom authentication module. Thus we can specific
Bb Server using custom Authentication module by setting
bbconfig.auth.type=custom in bb-config.properties.
However i got the reply from Bb support that Bb Adademic
system can only accept 1 authentication mechanism specified in the
bb-config.properties. You cannot specify more than 1 value for the
bb.config.auth.type setting or add another same parameter. Hence, the system
cannot have a hybrid of authentication schemes (e.g. LDAP + database).
Does anyone have experience or suggest to implement my
purpose?