If you just want to have a look at how eXo works with ldap. eXo comes with a predefined ldap configuration. You just need to activate it and eXo will create all it needs to work at startup.
You need to have a working LDAP server and a user with write permissions.
Open exo-tomcat/webapps/portal/WEB-INF/conf/configuration.xml and replace:
<import>war:/conf/organization/hibernate-configuration.xml</import>
With
<import>war:/conf/organization/ldap-configuration.xml</import>
0pen ldap-configuration.xml and update the providerURL, rootdn and password settings according to your environment
<field name="providerURL"><string>ldap://127.0.0.1:389</string></field>
<field name="rootdn"><string>CN=Manager,DC=MyCompany,DC=com</string></field>
<field name="password"><string>secret</string></field>
Delete exo-tomcat/temp/* to have a clean database and then start tomcat.
eXo starts and autocreates its organization model in your directory tree. Finally, the structure of the default LDAP schema looks like:
That's it! Now eXo uses your LDAP directory as its org model storage. Users, groups and memberships are now stored and retrieved from there. We suggest that you complete some guideline functions with eXo user management portlet and see what it changes in your directory tree.