Moodle Authentication Using an External Web Service

Moodle Authentication Using an External Web Service

by SECOMV EMARF -
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Hi, Folks,


I have an external web service for authentication in my company and I'd like to connect Moodle with it, but I'm not being able to do it.


When I activate the web service authentication plugin, I see the message that I cannot use it exclusively with web accounts. 


Maybe it's a newbie or stupid question, but I didn't understand why... can y ou explain it?


Thanks,

Luiz




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Re: Moodle Authentication Using an External Web Service

by Daniel Neis Araujo -
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Hello,


as far as I know, the standard "webservices authentication" of Moodle is used to authenticate consumers of Moodle's webservices.


If you are interested in authenticating users against an external webservice, you may take a look at

https://github.com/danielneis/moodle-auth_ws/


It works with SOAP, but feel free to make it work with REST and other protocols and submit a pull request =)


Kind regards,

Daniel

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Re: Moodle Authentication Using an External Web Service

by SECOMV EMARF -

Hi, Daniel,


It seems it's what I am looking for, but I didn't understand how to setup it. Can you give me any advice, please?


Thank you very much.

Luiz

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Re: Moodle Authentication Using an External Web Service

by Daniel Neis Araujo -
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Hello,


after you install the plugin, you should see the new settings, but if it not happen, got to the following URL on your moodle:

moodle/admin/settings.php?section=manageauths

Enable the "External webservice authentication" plugin and click the link to go to it's settings, or access the following URL on your moodle:

moodle/admin/auth_config.php?auth=ws

Now, you will need the following from your SOAP webservice, in same order of settings page:

  • The URL of your server. Note that the ?wsdl prefix will be added if needed.
  • A set of parameters that may be sent in every call (maybe moodletoken:abfbFba5asas5cs5asc)
  • The name of the function to use to authenticate users
  • Name of the paramater to send username as to the webservice.
  • Name of the paramater to send password as to the webservice.
  • The name of the class containing the result of webservice.
  • The field of the class containing boolean the result of webservice.

You may see an form with sample data at:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/danielneis/moodle-auth_ws/master/moodle-auth_ws_settings.png

If you have any other doubts, please let me know.


Kind regards,

Daniel

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Re: Moodle Authentication Using an External Web Service

by SECOMV EMARF -

Hi, Daniel,


I tried to install it using plugin install option, but I got an error message of name mismatch.

I unzipped, renamed plugin's main directory as "auth_ws" and tried again. This time I got a different error message (see added file).


By the way, I'm using 2.9.1 version.


Thank you.

Luiz

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Re: Moodle Authentication Using an External Web Service

by Daniel Neis Araujo -
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Hello,


don't know about this install option, and because the plugin still is not on plugins database, it really should not work.

You must put the code in moodle/auth/ws and it will work =)


Kind regards,

Daniel

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