[anthonym16]

I got some PMs asking how I got Haqa's plugin working in 3.8.1 so here's what I did...

Start off by creating a hook in login.php and registering it by following the directions here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=148573

Do the edit to global.php mentioned in the directions above. I verified that the 1 and 0 for DISABLE_PASSWORD_CLEARING in global.php were swapped in 3.8.1. If you don't do that edit, vb will encrypt the user's password in an md5 hash onsubmit of the login form. Unless your AD passwords are stored in an md5 hash, the password check will fail.

Install Haqa's plugin and go into the plugin manager and set it to fire on the new hook you created. I setup some logging in the plugin code so I could see what was going on. If you get this far, it's all configuration from there.


I extracted the logging code from the plugin linked above to help me debug and added it to Haqa's plugin code:

define('LDDEBUG', true);
function wrlog($text)
{
	global $fp;
	if($fp){fputs($fp, date("d/m/y : H:i:s", time()) ." >> " . $text . "\n");}
}

if(defined('LDDEBUG')) { $fp=fopen('C:\inetpub\wwwroot\forums\logs\ldap.debug', "a+"); }
if(defined('LDDEBUG')) { wrlog("++ -------- begin ldap log -------- ++"); }

The only downside of this approach is that I had to edit vb source. This is only a temporary solution I hope. I just upgraded to 3.8.2 and saw that global.php and login.php were both overwritten... Hopefully Haqa comes up with a way do to all this without altering any vb source.

Something else for people that are having trouble... vb uses your email as a primary key for users. Initially, my vb admin account was setup to use my email. When I went to test the plugin by using my username from AD to log in, the plugin code tried to create me a new account but failed because my email was already in use by the admin account.