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As for the LDAP errors, there was one trick that I...

2012-01-16T08:27:16.342-08:00

As for the LDAP errors, there was one trick that I used to troubleshoot ldap problems. I was working on a Mac so I used tcpdump to capture the traffic that was going between my machine and the ldap server. Then I used wireshark to view the traffic. When I looked at the traffic dump I was able to get more detailed information about why the authentication was failing. In my case, it was because I wasn't binding to LDAP before attempting to search for the user.

Hi Scott, The ldap login page is not being genera...

2012-01-16T08:25:22.917-08:00

Hi Scott,

The ldap login page is not being generated by devise, it is being generated by omniauth-ldap. And the code for omniauth-ldap doesn't have any generators like devise which will allow me to customize the view. I also tried creating a view and putting it in places that I thought might override the generated view but I had no luck. I think you should check out my most recent posting on the topic where I had more success. http://www.blackfistsecurity.com/2011/12/rails-authentication-using-devise-and_27.html

Hi Kevin, Thanks for the guide. I've been try...

2012-01-16T04:11:34.906-08:00

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for the guide. I've been trying to roll a similar system myself.
Two points:
1. I believe you can fully customize Devise views by extracting them with 'rails generate devise:views'.

2. Unfortunately your guide does not appear to work too well for. I'm hoping you can help. I'm not sure I should be spamming this comment with bucket loads of output, but I get the following helpful error:
"Could not authorize you from Ldap because "Ldap error"."
As far as I can tell its not even attempting to contact the LDAP server, so something is amiss.
Would I be able to see what you've done as an example to follow?