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This page is designed to show how to integrate Roller 4.0 with either LDAP (Apache DS) or  and optionally JA-SIG Central Authentication Service. To begin, you will need to download the following:

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1. Stop Tomcat.
2. Install Apache Directory Server and start it as root by running "sudo /usr/local/apacheds" (on OS X).
3. Install Apache Directory Studio and launch the application.
4. Create a new LDAP Connection with the following settings:
   • Connection Name: Local ApacheDS
   • Hostname: localhost
   • Port: 10389
   • Encryption: No Encryption
   • (Click Next)
   • Bind DN or user: uid=admin,ou=system
   • Bind password: secret
   • (Click Finish)
5. Download roller.ldif to your Desktop. This file contains an admin account as well as Groups and People organizational units.
6. In Apache Directory Studio, right click on dc=example,dc=com and select Import > LDIF Import...
7. Select roller.ldif for the LDIF file and click Finish. You may get an error during the import, but it should add entries successfully.

8. Modify $CATALINA_HOME/lib/roller-custom.properties so it has a single entry:

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   users.sso.enabled=true

9. Open $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/roller/WEB-INF/security.xml in your favorite XML editor. Look for "LDAP/SSO" and uncomment the bean definitions to enable LDAP. In the "authenticationManager" bean, comment out "daoAuthenticationProvider" and enable "ldapAuthProvider". Commenting out "daoAuthenticationProvider" is not necessary, but it allows you to verify you're only authenticating against LDAP. Use the following values for the values in the "initialDirContextFactory" bean.
   • LDAP_URL = ldap://localhost:10389/dc=example,dc=com
   • LDAP_USERNAME = uid=admin,ou=system
   • LDAP_PASSWORD = secret
10. While you're editing security.xml, change the "rollerlovesacegi" value to something unique to your server. Any XML-friendly characters will work. The more cryptic the better.
11. Start Tomcat and login to your blog with admin/adminldap (the password here defined in the roller.ldif file downloaded).

These instructions have been tested and verified against OpenDS as well. The main differences are the LDAP settings. The default settings for OpenDS are:

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