There's an open PR with a few build issues to build a Galaxy-side wheel for python-ldap here: https://github.com/galaxyproject/starforge/pull/97, and once that's resolved it should be automatically installed as a conditional dependency the usual Galaxy way.

Until then, yeah, a workaround is to activate the virtualenv and pip install it. As you found out, to do that you'll need a few system packages -- I had to install both libldap2-dev and libsasl2-dev on an ubuntu box here to get it to build. Good luck!

-Dannon

On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 7:07 AM Hans-Rudolf Hotz <hrh@fmi.ch> wrote:

Dear all

I am looking into authentication through LDAP using the auth_conf file
(we are currently using Apache to handle this). And it looks like, I am
stuck at a very early step:

I have started with a fresh checkout of release 16.04
(git clone -b master https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy.git)

some modifications in galaxy.ini (host, port) and:

auth_config_file = config/auth_conf.xml

I start galaxy, and I try to login. In the log file I get:

galaxy.webapps.galaxy.controllers.user DEBUG 2016-07-22 12:41:50,741
trans.app.config.auth_config_file: ./config/auth_conf.xml
galaxy.auth.providers.ldap_ad DEBUG 2016-07-22 12:41:50,741 LDAP
authenticate: email is hansrudolf.hotz@fmi.ch
galaxy.auth.providers.ldap_ad DEBUG 2016-07-22 12:41:50,741 LDAP
authenticate: ....

This is what I expect...so far so good

but further down, I get:

galaxy.auth.providers.ldap_ad DEBUG 2016-07-22 12:41:50,742 LDAP
authenticate: could not load ldap module

According to our sysadmin, "python-ldap" is installed on the machine
(running Red Hat 7.2). But I assume, it has to be within the galaxy
created virtual env, hasn't-it?

Hence I have tried the following

cd <galaxy-root>
. .venv/bin/activate
pip install python-ldap

Is this the right way to do it?

Doing this, I have been running into the following error:

Modules/errors.h:8:18: fatal error: lber.h: No such file or directory
#include "lber.h"

So I guess I have to tell my sysadmin to install "openldap-devel in
order to have 'lber.h' on the system?

Or do I have to do something else?

Thank you very much for your help
Hans-Rudolf

--

Hans-Rudolf Hotz, PhD
Bioinformatics Support

Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
Maulbeerstrasse 66
4058 Basel/Switzerland
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