Setting up Openfire 3.6.4 on GNU/Linux with LDAP Active Directory vcards was easy to do. Configuration for Kerberos single sign-on was a bit more complicated but now works after reading some hints on the discussion forum. Publishing shared contact lists (rosters) from LDAP to clients also works.
There is just one annoyance:
In every XMPP-Client I used (Adium, iChat, Spark, Pidgin, Miranda) no nicknames are shown on the contact lists in the shared LDAP rosters. Only login names and JIDs are visible. When selecting “view user details” on the client, the nickname is shown correctly like ever other attribute.
On the user area in the openfire web configuration every user entry looks like this, with “Name: Not set.”. Every other attributes are filled from LDAP. Maybe there is a connection with the first time the list was populated as every user showns up with the same registration date?
Username: testuser
Status: offline
Is Administrator: no
Name: Not set.
Email: testuser@domain.net
Registered: Aug 15, 2009
Groups: testgroup1, testgroup2, testgroup3
Some server properties:
ldap.nameField: givenname sn
ldap.override.avatar: true
ldap.usernameField: samaccountname
ldap.vcard-mapping:
{givenname} {sn} {mail} {givenname} {sn} {givenname} {sn} {company} {department}provider.auth.className: org.jivesoftware.openfire.ldap.LdapAuthProvider
provider.group.className: org.jivesoftware.openfire.ldap.LdapGroupProvider
provider.user.className: org.jivesoftware.openfire.ldap.LdapUserProvider
provider.vcard.className: org.jivesoftware.openfire.ldap.LdapVCardProvider