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Using local login id

by chris stevens - Wednesday, June 18, 2014, 5:52 AM

Hi,

We currently use LDAP to authenticate users against Windows AD, and this then challenges with an IIS login screen (at least that's how I think it works)

I want to be able to add some local (non windows network) users to the system, and get them to log in.However, the login process doesn't seem to drop to local access checks if the windows AD check fails. Seems to be windows id or nothing.

Does anybody know how to grant local access in a network environment, or alternatively to get moodle to challenge with its' native login screen if the IIS and Windows Network check fails. In our test system, using the Moodle inbuilt logon screen, it works just fine.

Hope that makes sense

Chris

Re: Using local login id

by John Gifford - Wednesday, June 18, 2014, 3:40 PM

Hi Chris

We use LDAP for the students and staff but I set the administrator accounts to be a local login, controlled from the database. That way if the ldap authentication fails for whatever reason I can still login as an admin to try and sort out why it failed and get it working again. Not that it matters anymore as the school are scrapping it!

As to how you change it to a local login:

If you look at the database table mdl_user (I'm using MySQL so I have to use MySQL workbench you'll use whatever you need to) you'll see the auth field lists the authentication method to be used against a user, most will be ldap of course, but if you change that to manual and put an md5 encoded password in the password field then the user is locally controlled.
Whether this would rid you of the IIS login screen I don't know, our Moodle uses ldap and I've never had an IIS login screen mainly because internally it's an apache webserver; IIS is used for our secure external facing site but even then I've only gotten the login screen from Moodle.

Hope this is of some help to you.

John Gifford

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