Oh the joy and the pain of this….

After a very long time I have now got this working how I want it but it was painful getting the right runes to make the two play nicely.

What I wanted:

• To have a group in AD that could access and authenticate to Openfire
• To have a groups in Openfire that were defined by an AD group.

AD Structure

• All of our users are in a group called “Foo Users”
• All of our groups are in “Foo Groups”
• All of our Openfire users are in a group called “openfire” which  is inside “Foo Groups”
• Our Openfire groups are in “Openfire Groups” which is in “Foo Groups” (I made “Openfire Groups” a universal group, this may or may not be needed).
• I then made the “openfire” group a member of “Openfire Groups”
• Our domain is called foo.com

The authentication

• ldap.baseDN : dc=”foo”,dc=”com”
• adminDN : cn=”administrator”,cn=”Users”,dc=”foo”,dc=”com”
• Userfilter : (&(memberOf=CN=openfire,OU=Foo Groups,DC=foo,DC=com))
• Groupfilter : (&(memberOf=CN=openfire,OU=Foo Groups,DC=foo,DC=com))

Hope this helps someone  🙂