Moodle Plugins directory: LDAP server (Sync Plus): Comments

Friday, 1 August 2025, 4:06 PM - Csaba Vágvölgyi

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 08:06:08 GMT

by Csaba Vágvölgyi.

It is unclear how "Fetching user details from LDAP" works.
When creating a user manually, the name and email fields are mandatory. After that, the profile fields are only updated when the user actually logs into the system. Does anyone have any experience with this?

Sunday, 5 May 2024, 3:08 AM - Elias Pereira

Sat, 04 May 2024 19:08:47 GMT

by Elias Pereira.

Any idea if the plugin is compatible with version 4.x?

Tuesday, 22 March 2022, 12:06 AM - Rene Hansen

Mon, 21 Mar 2022 16:06:38 GMT

by Rene Hansen.

Hello, we want to use this function: synchronize the attribute "suspended" - but it doesn't work, The users with this attribute are not suspended. What do we have to do to make this function work as expected?

version v3.11-r1 (2021072000) auth_ldap_syncplus

Monday, 21 June 2021, 10:48 PM - MAG II

Mon, 21 Jun 2021 14:48:09 GMT

by MAG II.

Hi -

My organization has been using this plugin to create profiles on Moodle from our active directory, and it works great. I have a question regarding the capability of this plugin. Is it possible that upon profile creation, the plugin automatically enrolls users into specific courses? The ideal scenario is to have employees automatically enrolled into courses upon Moodle profile creation, and before they even login to Moodle for the first time. Is such an action possible? Please let me know. Thanks!

Tuesday, 27 October 2020, 4:17 PM - Дмитрий Курбатов

Tue, 27 Oct 2020 08:17:51 GMT

by Дмитрий Курбатов.

Hello!

Explain or clarify why during creation
user account fields such as First Name, Last Name and Email Address are required fields?

Why the System does not allow leaving these fields empty, although the description for this plugin indicates the following «.... The only thing you have to specify correctly is the username (which corresponds to the username in LDAP). All other details like first name or email address can be filled with placeholder content. After you click the "Create user" button, Moodle pulls the other user's details from LDAP and creates the user account correctly with the details from LDAP.»

Friday, 20 March 2020, 2:20 AM - Zoran Jančić

Thu, 19 Mar 2020 18:20:21 GMT

by Zoran Jančić.

How to change authentication type of existing users form ldap to ldap_syncplus? Is it enough to update their auth field in mdl_user database table from 'ldap' to 'ldap_syncplus'?
In theory, this can be done via user download/upload moodle feature so we don't have to do it directly in database if someone doesn't have direct access to the database.

Friday, 22 November 2019, 4:40 PM - Jiri Michal

Fri, 22 Nov 2019 08:40:52 GMT

by Jiri Michal.

Hi,
I'm solving a problem with LDAP authentication and synchronization user accounts in multi-domain MS Active Directory tree. I'm using core LDAP plugin and authentication and synchronization are working (SSO to), but, because SamAccountName is not unique in this environment, I'm using userprincipalname like attribute for user identification (user_attribute). And it can be problem, for example when women user get merried and she change her surname, AD manager changes it in AD and userprincipalname are changed too. I would like use SID or GUID like identification users, but in core LDAP it's not possible.
It's posible to use SID or GUID in LDAP syncPlus plugin? And whats about switch ID atribut in live system?

Thanks,
Jirka

Tuesday, 29 January 2019, 7:15 PM - Alexander Bias

Tue, 29 Jan 2019 11:15:27 GMT

by Alexander Bias.

Hi Silke,

the 3.6 version is now tested and released.

Cheers,
Alex

Tuesday, 29 January 2019, 3:10 PM - Alexander Bias

Tue, 29 Jan 2019 07:10:20 GMT

by Alexander Bias.

Hi Silke,
I am sorry but this plugin has not been tested for 3.6 yet by us. I have seen that there were, as usual, some changes in auth_ldap in 3.6 which most probably have to be adopted to auth_ldap_syncplus. We will tackle this work throughout the next weeks.

So, running this plugin on 3.6 is at your own risk currently unfortunately.

Cheers,
Alex

Thursday, 24 January 2019, 9:15 PM - Silke Kirberg

Thu, 24 Jan 2019 13:15:42 GMT

by Silke Kirberg.

Hello Alex, does syncplus work with Moodle 3.6? We will have an update next week Thank you, Silke

Wednesday, 7 February 2018, 5:05 AM - Gabe G

Tue, 06 Feb 2018 21:05:08 GMT

by Gabe G.

Hi Alexander,

Just wanted to report that the 3.3 plugin released earlier today (what a coincidence!) installed fine to my 3.4.1, and seemed to successfully sync/create users in Moodle from cron.

Thank you for all your work on this!

Thursday, 27 July 2017, 3:26 PM - Alexander Bias

Thu, 27 Jul 2017 07:26:34 GMT

by Alexander Bias.

Hi Yegor,

we will need some more weeks until we can do 3.3 testing due to our delayed internal scheduled.

However, up to now, we haven't received any problem reports with the 3.2 version on 3.3. Please give it a try.

Thanks,
Alex

Tuesday, 25 July 2017, 12:07 PM - Yegor Grishko

Tue, 25 Jul 2017 04:07:40 GMT

by Yegor Grishko.

Hello, any news on when will 3.3 version available? Thank you!

Saturday, 8 April 2017, 12:52 AM - Alexander Bias

Fri, 07 Apr 2017 16:52:57 GMT

by Alexander Bias.

Hi Paul,

I have never built a setup like this before myself, but theoretically it should work without problems.

Thanks,
Alex

Friday, 7 April 2017, 10:16 PM - Paul Nijbakker

Fri, 07 Apr 2017 14:16:44 GMT

by Paul Nijbakker.

Hi,
This is an interesting plugin. My question is: Can this plugin exist next to the standard LDAP plugin, so that a site basically has two LDAP authentication instances which authenticate users from two different active directories?