LDAP & Data Mapping fields
by Calvin Bu. Hello All,I am new to Moodle. I managed to setup the Moodle application by reading all the valuable information in this forum. I successfully configured SSO in Moodle to use LDAP &...
View ArticleConverting Mnet users to LDAP
by Stephen Elaschuk. We'd like to transition from having our users authentication via Mnet to another moodle server, to using it's own LDAP lookup. Is there an easy way to change the authentication...
View ArticleRe: Converting Mnet users to LDAP
by Stephen Elaschuk. Ahha, it seems one has to change the auth type to ldap, and set the mnethostid back to '1'.
View ArticleRe: External database Authentication
by Randy Thornton. Since you are on 2.5.1, you might check on the way in which Password salting has changed since 2.4: http://docs.moodle.org/25/en/Password_salting and note the PHP version issue...
View ArticleRe: LDAP & Data Mapping fields
by Andrea Bicciolo. Hello Calvin, if you want to use already existing unused standard user profile fields, you could just rename the language strings. You can do so for all the language you are using...
View ArticleMoodle as SAML Identity Provider
by Alfredo Freitas. Hello All, We need to configure Moodle as SAML Identity Provider (IdP). We do have some administratives services as Service Provider and we want to make an SSO using Moodle as IdP....
View ArticleRe: LDAP & Data Mapping fields
by Calvin Bu. Andrea - Thank you for your responding.I would like to do both.1st, Rename the wording in LDAP Server configuration page, in the Data Mapping section at the bottom from "Description" to...
View ArticleNTLM SSO - Moodle user name change
by Calvin Bu. Hello All,How do you deal with the situation when an employee change his/her name in his/her Active Directory NT account?His/her in AD information such as NT logon ID, name and email...
View ArticleRe: Username Change with External Database Authentication
by Calvin Bu. Hello David,Your solution to prevent the duplicate user record when authenticate with an external DB. I am new to Moodle, so I don't understand what you mean by saying "modify the auth...
View ArticleManage authentication - Two External database
by samudaya Nanayakkara. Hi all,I have two external MySQL databases which contain user details and I want to configure my Moodle to support to authentication by using those two external databases.I...
View ArticleRe: NTLM SSO - Moodle user name change
by Lawrence Ng. Calvin,You can control thisUnder Site administration -> Plugins -> Authentication -> Manage authenticationCheck off the "Prevent account creation when authenticating"As...
View ArticleRe: External database Authentication
by Lizzy Ralph. Hi Randy,Thank you very much for your opinions.My PHP version is 5.3.10 which shouldn't be an issue for running external database.I have tried MNet. It works; however, it is not 100% a...
View ArticleRe: External database Authentication
by Randy Thornton. Lizzy,No, the keys are generated and handled internally. Nothing for an admin to do once set up.You might take a look at this discussion on what is happening with MNet...
View ArticleEmail-based self-registration without email confirmation
by S R. Hi folks, I know there are several topics about setting up an registrations method where no e-mail is required but nothing would help me with my problem. Following scenario:I'm working for a...
View ArticleRe: Warning: ldap_search(): Search: No such object
by Mark Nelson. Hi Guys,This is being addressed by https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-41304.Regards,Mark
View ArticleLog in a user from outside without having to fill a form
by Federico Teotini. Hi all,We're working on a project where is mandatory to "connect" an external db to the moodle's one.I said connect but it isn't correct.Sadly we don't have direct access to the...
View ArticleRe: You cannot proceed without changing your password. However there is no...
by Blair F.. I'm wondering if anything has changed with Moodle 2.2+ regarding this issue. I just had this error reported by a faculty member for the first time in my 3 years of using Moodle.
View ArticleMoodle Login of the User
by Moodle Developer. In our case we're remotely authenticating a user through an ajax request from Moodle.I understand that moodle saves the password after hasing in the user tables , how can we...
View ArticleRe: Moodle Login of the User
by Moodle Developer. it'll be our own custom php page running at moodle sever, will check against stored hashed password and return true/false to calling ajax script. please advise.
View ArticleRe: Email-based self-registration not working
by Paula Ulloa. Hi, i had the same problem, after doing that, I add a new block named log in
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