OX6:Contacts LDAP AD

Installation and Configuration of LDAP Addressbook Plugin

Installation

Install the package open-xchange-contacts-ldap.

Configuration

The configuration of the package can be found below the directory /opt/open-xchange/etc/groupware/contacts-ldap.

Change into that directory and run the following commands:

cp mapping.ads.properties.example mapping.ads.properties
mv 111 1
cd 1
cp LDAPglobal1.properties.example LDAPglobal1.properties

now open LDAPglobal1.properties with an editor and change the following values:

All occurrences of context111 must be replaced with context1. The easiest way to do that is with vim. Just open the file with vim LDAPglobal1.properties.

Then enter

:1,$s/context111/context1/g

That should replace everything.

com.openexchange.contacts.ldap.context1.LDAPglobal1.uri=ldap://172.18.16.21
com.openexchange.contacts.ldap.context1.LDAPglobal1.baseDN_users= DC=example,DC=com
com.openexchange.contacts.ldap.context1.LDAPglobal1.AdminDN= CN=Administrator,DC=example,DC=com
com.openexchange.contacts.ldap.context1.LDAPglobal1.AdminBindPW=secret
com.openexchange.contacts.ldap.context1.LDAPglobal1.searchfilter= (objectclass=user)
com.openexchange.contacts.ldap.context1.LDAPglobal1.authtype=AdminDN

After the changes have been applied, the server must be restarted.

To check, whether the plugin has been started successfully, run

/opt/open-xchange/sbin/listbundles | grep contacts.ldap

The following output should appear:

bundlename: com.openexchange.contacts.ldap status: ACTIVE

Then everything should work.

Using the distribution list feature

To make that work, the following changes must be applied:

Then add the following lines to /opt/open-xchange/etc/groupware/contacts-ldap/1/LDAPglobal1.properties:

# Specify the searchfilter for the global ldap folder here
com.openexchange.contacts.ldap.context1.LDAPglobal1.searchfilter= (&(objectclass=user)(sAMAccountName=*))

# Specify what types of contacts should be display. Maybe "users",
# "distributionlists", or "both"
com.openexchange.contacts.ldap.context1.LDAPglobal1.contactTypes=distributionlists

# Specify the searchfilter for distributionlists of the global ldap folder
# here. Optional if contactTypes is "users"
com.openexchange.contacts.ldap.context1.LDAPglobal1.searchfilter_distributionlist=(&(objectclass=group)(groupType=2))

# Specify the search base for distributionlists here (sub, base, one).
# This should only be specified if this is different from the searchScope
# parameter.
com.openexchange.contacts.ldap.context1.LDAPglobal1.searchScope_distributionlist=sub

# Specify the baseDN for distributionlists of the global ldap folder here.
# Optional if contactTypes is "users"
com.openexchange.contacts.ldap.context1.LDAPglobal1.baseDN_distributionlist=DC=example,DC=com

If you want to to have all users including distribution lists within the ldap addressbook, you can change

com.openexchange.contacts.ldap.context1.LDAPglobal1.contactTypes

to “both” instead of “distributionlists”. The users are already available in the Open-Xchange database, though.