Problem Description
I have installed the Nextcloud snap on my Freedombox, and added the offical “LDAP user and group backend” plug-in to Nextcloud.
I want to configure Nextcloud to use Freedombox’s built in LDAP server, however I need to know:
- the DN of the client user to bind with
- the base DN for users and groups
(Note, I don’t yet fully understand LDAP concepts like DNs.)
I’ve tried a few things but I’m basically guessing, and I can’t find any information searching - I’ve looked on this site or any other freedombox resources. However it looks like it should be simple to do if I know the right identifiers. See https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/16/admin_manual/configuration_user/user_auth_ldap.html
Questions:
- Can anyone point me in the right direction to obtaining correct settings for this?
- Also: is Nextcloud likely to work acceptably with my hardware? (Initial experiments suggest it might.)
Steps to Reproduce
Labels starting with $ indicate values you need to provide. Do not insert these labels literally!
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$passwordis your admin user password -
$random_portis an unused port for nextcloud to use for HTTP, which Freedombox will reverse-proxy (see https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/stable/admin_manual/configuration_server/reverse_proxy_configuration.html) -
$hostnameis the outwardly visible hostname your Freedombox uses.
- Log onto the freedombox terminal via ssh (with sudo)
sudo apt install snapdsudo snap install nextcloudsudo /snap/bin/nextcloud.manual-install admin $passwordsudo snap set nextcloud ports.http=$random_portsudo /snap/bin/nextcloud.occ config:system:set overwritehost --value="$hostname"sudo /snap/bin/nextcloud.occ config:system:set overwritewebroot --value="/nextcloud"- insert the following file in
/etc/apache2/conf-available/nextcloud-plinth_custom.conf, symlink it into the sibling directoryconf-enabledandsudo service apache2 restart
Content of nextcloud-plinth_custom.conf:
<Location /nextcloud>
ProxyPass http://localhost:$random_port/
## Send the scheme from user's request to enable Transmission to
## redirect URLs, set cookies, set absolute URLs (if any)
## properly.
RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Proto 'https' env=HTTPS
</Location>
Expected Results
I expect to see Nextcloud and Freedom box user authentication synchronised, such that I can manage them from both.
Actual results
I cannot find LDAP settings which the Nextcloud plugin will accept and work with.
Information
- FreedomBox version: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) and FreedomBox version 19.24
- Nextcloud version: v16.0.5
- Nextcloud LDAP backend plugin version: 1.6.0
- Hardware: Pioneer-FreedomBox-HSK, i.e. an A20-OLinuXino-LIME2
- How did you install FreedomBox?: I bought pre-installed hardware.
