NodeBB + Ldap = internal BB?

[imc67]

Has anyone here on Cloudron experience to use NodeBB with LDAP, all data only for LDAP users and no external signup?

This way I guess it must be possible to use it like a kind of “intranet BB”?

[yusf]

No, but I'd like to be able to. Related discussion here.

[yusf]

To follow up, what you need to do is to fork the nodebb-app repo and add the LDAP addon to the manifest. Then you can install this forked app, install an LDAP NodeBB plugin into it and set it up manually.

[girish]

There was not functional ldap plugin for nodebb last I checked. Do you know if this has changed?

[yusf]

@girish Last time I checked there was one iirc, I had it installed but not configured (because I didn’t know how at the time). I remember following the forking history through 3–4 repos before finding the most current one.

[jdaviescoates]

@yusf @girish just had a quick look and it looks like this may be most recent one https://github.com/ink-blot/nodebb-plugin-node-ldap

[imc67]

@jdaviescoates @girish this looks indeed a good solution!

[girish]

@imc67 Indeed, it's atleast a good start. It does have some strange code I need to look into like https://github.com/ink-blot/nodebb-plugin-node-ldap/blob/master/index.js#L74 . Why LDAP code has murmur hash, I have no clue.

[yusf]

Also, the plugin doesn't work as it fails to activate. Logs later.

[yusf]

@yusf said in NodeBB + Ldap = internal BB?:

plugin doesn't work as it fails to activate

Correction: The plugin does activate, but there's no sign of its settings pane.

From the plugin readme:

It is possible that your linux distribution may be missing some dependencies for this plugin to work. If that is the case, try:

sudo apt-get update && apt-get install -y ldap-utils dnsutils

What's the status of these packages in Cloudron, @girish?

[girish]

@yusf Not sure why it needs them because it uses ldapjs

[yusf]

@girish Any insight into this? I've no idea either.

[imc67]

@yusf I couldn’t wait longer so I went for Wordpress, BBpress and BuddyPress.

[girish]

@yusf Not really, haven't had time to look into it. Maybe in the next 2-3 weeks. Cloudron 6 is the important priority now.

[flistertwo]

I want to login to nodebb by using LDAP, which plugin should I use?
I have tried nodebb-plugin-office-ldap and nodebb-plugin-sso-ldap, and I can't solve my problem very well.

[girish]

@flistertwo None of the ldap plugins have been updated in a while, so one has to develop a LDAP plugin to make things work with NodeBB. https://github.com/smartameer/nodebb-plugin-office-ldap hasn't been updated in 3 years and https://github.com/ianbogda/nodebb-plugin-sso-ldap has no updates in 6 years.

[jdaviescoates]

@girish the one I shared above https://github.com/ink-blot/nodebb-plugin-node-ldap is also a little bit old (the last commit was nearly 12 months ago), but it's newer than those two.

[bubonicfred]

@jdaviescoates
Theres a more active fork at https://github.com/csturiale/nodebb-plugin-node-ldap

[sirmavid]

the plugin doesn't work as it fails to activate.

[robi]

@sirmavid have you contacted the maintainer?

[sirmavid]

Not yet, i'll contact soon... .