This is probably best in the developers list. Maybe Alexis can give you a hand with this. From what I know the user documents *do* have to exist in the wiki. But I'm afraid I don't know enough to point about the LDAP implementation to point you out in the right direction... Luis. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Matthew Conway <conway(a)tripadvisor.com> Date: Jul 28, 2005 4:47 PM Subject: [xwiki-users] Question about authentication To: xwiki-users(a)objectweb.org I'd like to be able to use XWiki with an alternate source for user authentication and I thought creating my own auth service might do the trick. However, on further thought, I'm not sure how this would work - doesn't the XWiki user document still need to exist as a place to store user settings (e.g email notification plugin stores an object there)? I dug around a bit in the LDAP service code, and don't see anywhere where it creates the xwiki user document, so I'm wondering what I'm missing. I was thinking that maybe it should should auth the user then create the user doc if it doesn't already exist. I guess the code/pages I have that register that user could also send a message to xwiki to create the user, but for LDAP user management clients that may not be possible, so I must be missing something. Is there a better way to do auth that I don't know about? Our user data is in a set of DB tables. Thanks, Matt -- You receive this message as a subscriber of the xwiki-users(a)objectweb.orgmailing list. To unsubscribe: mailto:xwiki-users-unsubscribe@objectweb.org For general help: mailto:sympa@objectweb.org?subject=help ObjectWeb mailing lists service home page: http://www.objectweb.org/wws -- Luis Arias http://www.xwiki.com http://www.innover-entreprendre.net skype : kaaloo +33 6 14 20 87 93 mobile