Moodle SSO Trouble

[lholland421]

Hi All, We have been using moodle for 3 months now and i am trying to configure SSO . We have LDAP working a treat but i can't seem to get SSO working. We are running moodle on Ubuntu 14.04 using Apache.

 

I have enabled the SSO options and moodle tries to login using SSO but fails and shows me the normal login form. Does the Ubuntu box need to be part of the windows domain for this to work?

 

Any help would be appreciated

 

Cheers

[danbuntu]

you do need the server to be part of the domain. instructions are here;

 

 

https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/NTLM_authentication

 

make sure to search for '14.04' on the page and take note of the paragraph about winbindd permissions

[lholland421]

I have joined the ubuntu box to the domain and made those permission changes but its still not working. Is there any logs or troubleshoot steps i can take to see what it is ?

 

Thanks

[danbuntu]

Have you made sure to add your moodle domain name into the 'trusted sites' in internet explorer?

[lholland421]

Yup it is added to trusted sites. Moodle attempts to do SSO but fails and shows the normal login box. Surely there is a log somewhere of the error?

 

Thanks for the speedy reply !

 

Cheers

[danbuntu]

ok it's log time then :-)

 

tail -f /var/logs/apache/error.log

 

 

will give you a live log of your apache (you might need to adjust this if you've set up a virtual host) and:

 

tail -f /var/logs/syslog

 

will give you a live log of the system itself

 

best bet is to fire up two putty sessions at a time and run one command in each.

Then try to log in and you'll see what's occuring

[lholland421]

Brilliant , Ill give it ago and let you know !

 

CHEERS

[lholland421]

When i attempt to view those logs it says they are not there. whats the easiest way of seeing where these logs actually are ?

 

Thanks

[danbuntu]

the easiest way is to go to the locaiton and the look

 

do

 

cd /var/log/apache2

 

ls

 

cd = change directory - use 'cd ..' o go up a directory

ls - list files - the same a 'dir' on windows

 

top tip is to use the tab key to autocomplete as this makes moving around faster and stop you having the remember all the paths

 

so

 

cd /v 'tab key;

lo tab key

apa tab key

 

 

 

I think part of the issue it that I put he paths as 'logs' not 'log' in an earlier post