Lóránd Somogyi

(update: may 29., as a result of feedback)

As a Linux fan, I’m in minority in a company I work. Or at least if we look at the fact that there are about 140 Windows workstations, and just about 3 Linux workstations. – This is a result of company policy and the lack of time and knowledge at support level. This might change, but it would need really lot of time.

For those windows workstations, there are of course an NT domain defined, which is controlled with Active Directory (AD). As the member of the team I need to access shares of co-workers and the central file server. Read more…

We use Continuum 1.1 as our Continuous Integration server. We also have an LDAP directory that we like to use whenever it comes to user management. So we tried to integrate Continuum with LDAP. As described by the documentation, and here we configured the Continuum to use LDAP authentication.

Everything looked fine. Users could log in, as expected.

But there was one nasty problem. When we tried to change user roles, the users were not in the users list. Even if they logged in, the list showed only the admin and the guest user (and one user created before the LDAP configuration). We tried to google for an answer, but no luck. We tried to tweak the configuration, but it did not worked…

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