Pidgin and Active Directory

[Julien Garrigue]

Hello ! 



Thank you very much for your reply. 



I wanted to use active directory because when my colleagues log on to a computer they use a username, for e-mail another username, for web tools another one and so on... It's a lot of different usernames and to make easier the log in pidgin I wanted to use AD database. 

We are trying to simplify authentification through all of our tools and we want to use  our AD database to standardize and synchronise usernames/passwords for all our tools. So when a new colleague is employed the aim is that : I just create a new user on AD and he can access to all tools. If the user change his windows password, it change on all tools too , if they login to another computer, they don't need to think about their username for other tools and I wanted that pidgin follow the users whatever computer is used. 

Another thing is I wanted to use AD because I thought that users can make chatrooms. 

Last thing: I don't want that pidgin goes outside of our network as we use confidential datas. 



Right now we use "boujour" protocol to transfer files and chat quickly but chatroom is not possible and authentification which follow AD user is not possible too 


Thank you very much for your support. 



Julien 
----- Mail original -----
De: "David Woolley" <forums at david-woolley.me.uk> 
À: "Julien Garrigue" <julien.garrigue at fontalvie.fr> 
Cc: support at pidgin.im 
Envoyé: Lundi 1 Août 2011 00:17:53 
Objet: Re: Pidgin and Active Directory 

Julien Garrigue wrote: 
> 
> I've heared that we can use Active directory username/password to log in 
> pidgin. Could you explain to me how to do it ? 

You can't log in to Pidgin; you can only use it to log in to various 
services.  Use of active directory for authentication is likely to be 
implemented in the server for that service, not in the client. 
Certainly the string "active directory" appears nowhere in the Pidgin 
source code (version 2.7.9 scanned). 

Which service are you trying to access, and why do you think that Active 
Directory might help and might need support within Pidgin? 




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Thank you very much for your support. 



Julien 
----- Mail original -----
De: "David Woolley" <forums at david-woolley.me.uk> 
À: "Julien Garrigue" <julien.garrigue at fontalvie.fr> 
Cc: support at pidgin.im 
Envoyé: Lundi 1 Août 2011 00:17:53 
Objet: Re: Pidgin and Active Directory 

Julien Garrigue wrote: 
> 
> I've heared that we can use Active directory username/password to log in 
> pidgin. Could you explain to me how to do it ? 

You can't log in to Pidgin; you can only use it to log in to various 
services.  Use of active directory for authentication is likely to be 
implemented in the server for that service, not in the client. 
Certainly the string "active directory" appears nowhere in the Pidgin 
source code (version 2.7.9 scanned). 

Which service are you trying to access, and why do you think that Active 
Directory might help and might need support within Pidgin? 




-- 
David Woolley 
Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. 
RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, 
that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work. 
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