Topic: MRBS...anyone using it??

[steve lewis]

Hello,

MRBS, http://mrbs.sourceforge.net/ , is a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL,Perl) web application used for Meeting Room Booking and Scheduling. MRBS can authenticate users in several ways. Default is by IP. I would like to authenticate user via LDAP or SMB.

Anyone else using this app and what authentication do you use?

Can SME 5.5 authenticate users via LDAP. MRBS has this as an authentication option, but I have not been able to get it to work. Somewhat fuzzy about the "organisational unit" etc.

Any feedback is appreciated.

Steve Lewis

[Craig Bursey]

Hi Steve,

I've been playing with MRBS for a while and just recently got it up and running in my employers office. Authentication was the biggest issue for implimenting it in our office but managed to get a copy that had it built in via a usename/password system.  If you check the mailing list for MRBS you'll see some posts and download areas for obtaining these hacks done by Matt Barclay.

As for LDAP or SMB, I haven't tried either method, the usename/password system worked for us because we only wanted a couple of clerks to be able to add entries.  I figured it was better to have it up and working then spending months trying to get the authentication working within our existing network structure.

That's all for me,

Craig

P.S.  MRBS uses PHP not Perl.

[Steve Lewis]

Thanks Craig,

I have just subscribed to MRBS mail list. I will search for the hack you mention.

I have had MRBS installed at my church for some time. It finally took a newly hired secretary that is very comfortable with "web based apps" to start using it seriously. They had been using a physical calendar.

They don't mind the IP authentication, but I don't like it.

Thank you for reminding me about PHP part of LAMP, I was blanking out  at work while posting.

If you don't mind, are you using any other hacks to MRBS? I will repost what I find and what I end up using.

Thanks,

Steve Lewis

[Craig Bursey]

Steve,

No I haven't implemented any other changes. As you can see by the mailing list there are users posting fixes to bits and pieces but I'm more inclined to wait for a new all incompassing release instead of doing things piece meal.  Obviously, if there was something not working for us I would but right now it appears to be fine.

Yes, please keep me updated as to how it's going, I'll help if I can but the mailing list is the best place to post.

Take Care,

Craig

[Guck Puppy]

I just installed it last night in fact...

I am using it with IMAP authentication, the hint came from this page :
http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:aeQRhNNmIRsC:install.ifost.org.au/esmith-mrbs+mrbs+imap&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
(google cache, seems the original is offline)

so from the config.inc :

###############################################
# Authentication settings - read AUTHENTICATION
###############################################
$auth["realm"]  = "Tahoe Cabin Booking";
$auth["type"]   = "imap";
$auth["prog"]   = "";
$auth["params"] = "";
...
$auth["admin"][] = "admin";
...
# 'auth_imap' configuration settings
# Where is the IMAP server
$imap_host = "localhost";
# The IMAP server port
$imap_port = "143";

[Steve Lewis]

Craig,

I have started going through the mail list archives. I like to at least give that a shot so I don't overlook the obvious.

As with Guck Puppy, I configured MRBS to authenticate via IMAP. This work exactly as the IMAP_auth file in the Web section of MRBS.

Will continue to explore the other authentication methods.

Thanks for all the feedback.

Steve Lewis

[Bill Butts]

I have this installed mrbs on several e-smith boxes and have struggled with the authentication also.  The mrbs.sourceforge.net archives show a perl script (badpw.pl) that was discussed a year or so ago.  I was able to get that script working but am not sure how. (script below).
I would be interested if anyone has a "user friendly" user manager for logons that could be used to add/edit user logons and passwords.

 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

my %users;
my $un;
my $pw;

$un = shift;
$pw = shift;

exit 1 if (!$un || !$pw);

# The list of valid username and password pairs
$users{user1} = "pass1";
$users{user2} = "pass2";
$users{admin} = "secret";

if ($users{$un} eq $pw) {
   exit 0;
} else {
   exit 1;
}

[Guck Puppy]

So... you can't just use IMAP authentication?

Not all the users of the MRBS are also users of the e-smith servers?

G

[James Douglas]

A how do i become able to admin from any machine in my internal dhcp scope?
B seems like it wants to default into the web subdir but how do i make that teh default of an ibay?