Many organizations, in their never-ending quest to simplify their operations, are centralizing user accounts and passwords with a central directory such as LDAP or Windows Active Directory. XOOPS is able to connect to these directories so that existing user accounts that are already set up in a corporate directory can be used to log into XOOPS. XOOPS will pick up these usernames and groups and allow you to assign permissions to modules based on them. This means that the administration of XOOPS is simplified and you do not need to duplicate usernames and passwords for all your employees within XOOPS. Just imagine having to set up three hundred new user accounts in XOOPS, when those accounts already exist, and then having to maintain those accounts as staff join or leave or require access to different modules and blocks!
To accomplish the mission of tying into your corporate directory for authentication, follow the steps below:
1. Navigate to...