Enabling wiki access for Active Directory or third-party LDAP server users

  • Last Modified: May 13, 2008
  • Article: TS1619
  • Old Article: 306750

Symptoms

When using a Mac OS X Wiki Server that is bound to Active Directory, some configuration may be required in order to allow users to authenticate using their Active Directory credentials. This is required because, by default, the wiki server uses CRAM-MD5 authentication, which is not supported by the Active Directory plugin.  Third-party LDAP servers that are accessed via the LDAPv3 plugin may require the same configuration changes.

Products Affected

Mac OS X Server 10.5

Resolution

In order to authenticate Active Directory users and/or users stored in other third-party LDAP servers, you must enable clear text authentication for wikid. Note: In order to prevent sending passwords in the clear across the network, it is recommended that you also configure the wiki server for SSL.

Enabling clear text authentication for wikid

Open Terminal and type these commands on one line each: 

sudo serveradmin settings teams:enableClearTextAuth = yes
sudo serveradmin stop teams
sudo serveradmin start teams

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