Moodle mobile and Shibboleth and LDAP authentication

Moodle mobile and Shibboleth and LDAP authentication

von Mari Cruz García -
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Hello,

I have installed Moodle mobile, the official app, in my mobile, and when I try to log in the following Moodle site:

https://www.diabetes.cmdn.dundee.ac.uk using my University account, I get an error message saying that I cannot access.


We use Shibboleth for authentication and works fine in desktop computers. 

I read the information in the Moodle Mobile FAQ, but I cannot understand from the tracker which authentication is supported for Moodle 2.5 and Moodle 2.6.

Another question is:


Is it possible to use Moodle Mobile for a test site in which I am using a self-certificate that I created and manual accounts,.

When I type the url in the ipad:

https://testlz.health.org.kw

there is an error message stating that I should introduce a valid url (I also tried without the https, having the same error).


Thank you very much for your information.


Mari Cruz

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Re: Moodle mobile and Shibboleth and LDAP authentication

von Dave Perry -
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For the mobile app to work with Shibboleth, the moodle administrator needs to install this plugin:
https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=local_mobile

For the URL thing, if you change a moodle site to be pure https (i.e. every page has that in the address) you'll need to change the siteroot value in the config.php file to include it.

 

HTH

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Re: Moodle mobile and Shibboleth and LDAP authentication

von Mari Cruz García -

Thanks for the clarification, David.

The site root value in config.php was changed to $CFG->wwwroot   = 'https://testlz.health.org.kw';

I remember having read that the Moodle Mobile app does not like self-certificates, but I cannot find that information in the documentation now.

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Re: Moodle mobile and Shibboleth and LDAP authentication

von Juan Leyva -
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Hi Mari Cruz,

for security reasons the app doesn't work with self-signed certificates, you need a trusted one. It's true that is not documented I will add it to the FAQs. 

Cheers, Juan

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