Using LDAP with Koha
If your organization uses an LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) server for user authentication, it makes sense to configure Koha to integrate with it. This way you don't have to maintain users and passwords in two places, the LDAP server and in Koha.
This is how Koha works with LDAP:
- When a user logs into Koha, the password entered by the user is verified against the password maintained on the LDAP server.
- We can configure Koha such that when a user logs in for the first time, his/her patron category, branch, address, and other such information is copied over into Koha.
- We can configure Koha such that if a user's LDAP record is updated, the updated information is copied over into Koha when the user next logs into Koha. ...
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