ejabberd - Comments for "mod_shared_roster_ldap - not buddy list not populating."

Thanks for letting me know

jimh — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 22:37:32 +0000

Thanks for letting me know about the limitation.

Can you point me in the direction of how to install that patched version? It is just a matter of getting the latest erl from that site, compiling and replacing the old beam file?

I just tried doing that and restarting, but it's still not populating the roster.

update: I copied settings from the EJAB-1480 page, and it seems to work. There aren't groups though. It's all in one group. I'll keep at it.

Unfortunately, you cannot use

mikekaganski — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 21:25:37 +0000

Unfortunately, you cannot use OUs as groups in vanilla msrl. This is its genuine limitation. This had been addressed in the patched version (which documentation you used initially).

Each of the 3 groups

jimh — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 20:07:05 +0000

Each of the 3 groups (JPUsers, PSUsers, SBSUsers) under OU=Users has the follow attributes: objectClass, instanceType, objectCategory, ou, distinquishedName, dsCorePropagationData, name, objectGUID.

The users in each group have the follow attributes: objectClass, cn, instanceType, objectCategory, displayName, distinquishedName, giveName, objectGUID, primaryGroupID, sAMAccountName, sAMAccountType, userAccountControl. (I left out fields that were for Exchange.)

I'm been trying to read: https://git.process-one.net/ejabberd/mainline/blobs/raw/v2.1.10/doc/guid..., however I can't seem to piece it all together successfully so it shows group names or any users.

This is what I'm trying to use in my ejabberd.cfg

  {mod_shared_roster_ldap,[
    {ldap_base, "OU=Users,OU=MyBusiness,DC=COMPANY,DC=local"},
    {ldap_rfilter, "(objectClass=organizationalUnit)"},
    {ldap_groupattr, "ou"},
    {ldap_groupdesc, "description"},
    {ldap_filter,  "(objectClass=user)"},
    {ldap_userdesc, "displayName"}
  ]},

When I'm looking at ejabberd admin page, it shows all the (171) users. It'd be a big step if that showed up on the roster.

mikekaganski wrote: Your

jimh — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:32:07 +0000

mikekaganski wrote:

Your config may only be used with an unofficial patched msrl from EJAB-1480. You should make sure that you use that module, or use official documentation to configure the module.

Also, you should post a part of your data (ie hierarchy of objects you try to put to roster), and the desired result, to be able to understand what you want to achieve.

Thanks. I was not aware that there was 2 version of this module. I unfortunately am not certain which version I have. I believe I'm using ejabberd 2.1.6 that comes default on Ubuntu 12.04, and 2.1.6 is supposed to include mod_shared_roster_ldap(?).

Would this be the documentation for it? https://git.process-one.net/ejabberd/mainline/blobs/raw/v2.1.6/doc/guide...

The base location for the groups/users is OU=Users,OU=MyBusiness,DC=Company,DC=local.
Under OU=Users, there's 3 groups. OU=JPUsers, OU=PSUsers, OU=SBSUsers.

For now as a start, I'd love to just be able to dump all the users from those groups into a single roster.

Ideally, it's be good to figure out how to filter out the users that had been deactivated.

I'm usually good at using google to look up information, but this subject has been difficult for me to find information on. Thanks again for your help.

update: I'm looked at the logs and realized that I'm using ejabberd 2.1.10.

Your config may only be used

mikekaganski — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 22:25:05 +0000

Your config may only be used with an unofficial patched msrl from EJAB-1480. You should make sure that you use that module, or use official documentation to configure the module.

Also, you should post a part of your data (ie hierarchy of objects you try to put to roster), and the desired result, to be able to understand what you want to achieve.