Openfire chat server Active Directory integration

In a previous tutorial we had a look at installing Openfire chat server in Centos using build-in authentication method.You can find the detailed article here.

Now let us have a look at how to configure the same using Active directory authentication.
ie when login using chat client,openfire server will check the authentication in the Active directory Domain controller.

 Please refer my previous post for detailed installation steps.

1. In the installation procedure choose Directory Server (LDAP) in the profile settings.
2. Click Continue

 In the next screen.

• Server type : Active directory
• Host : Enter the host name or IP address of the AD.
• Base DN : Enter the DN where openfire will allow users to login,you can use OU also.

                            I am using the entire tree so DC=domain,DC=com

•  Administrator DN : Here we have to enter an AD administrator account (I prefer to use a read-only user for this)
• Password : Enter the administrator user password
• You can test settings or Save&Continue.

                                 

                            

Here no need to change anything ,but of course you can test and research.

Click save & Continue again.

Here we have to enter he AD account that we use to login to Openfire admin panel.

• Enter the admin account and click add.

If everythng is fine,you can login to the admin panel using the AD adminsitator account that you just provided.

And of course you can login in the clients (Spark) using the Active directory user credentials.

Thanks for reading.