Enrolment

Hi,

That's an interesting question--we have the same situation. In the "Edit Profile" tab for each user you can switch the authentication method from manual to LDAP. If you do that then you'll also have to make sure that the username is the same as the LDAP username. You also need to notify the user that they need to use the new username/password to get into Moodle.

Everything inside Moodle associated with that account is tracked by the id field in the mdl_user table, so none of these changes should disturb the user having access to their courses, etc. You may want to look in phpMyAdmin at that table before and after to see if everything looks right. Note that the password field becomes empty with LDAP authentication because it always sends the login password there to get approval for access.

I haven't tried this yet, so take what I write with a grain of salt. But you've inspired me to try it now.

Thanks,
Bill J