On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 6:56 AM, tmortagne (via Nabble) < [email protected]<ml-user%[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 18:33, Andawyr<andawyr@...<http://n2.nabble.com/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=3035230&i=0>> wrote:
We've configured our XWiki instance to use a custom authentication plugin
to
authenticate via a secure logon cookie. When the user signs in, information pertaining to the user is fetched from Active Directory; note that this is done as part of the plugin, and does not access A/D via XWiki.
However, the side effect of this change is that a user has to access XWiki once to get created in the local user space so they can then be added to the various groups that have been created in the wiki. This is inconvenient at best, and I would like to fix this.
I found an interesting script in this post:
http://n2.nabble.com/LDAP---importing-users-td506206.html#a506207
that provides a script to query LDAP via XWiki, and populate the local user store with all A/D users.
My question is: can I configure XWiki to use both the custom authentication plugin, *and* configure LDAP access so I can use the above script to populate the database?
If the above doesn't work, I can create a perl script that will generate a script that I can put into a Wiki page, but that's not as nice as having a canned script available the wiki that I can run at the click of a mouse.
What you can do is extends the XWikiLDAPAuthServiceImpl authenticator, do your custom part and let it do the LDAP part. All the methods are protected so you can easily modify some parts of it's behavior if you need. That way your custom authenticator is called but it can use the XWiki standard LDAP authenticator (which will use the same configuration it would use if it was the "main" authenticator) as a tool.
So, just to be clear, this will perform user searches directly against LDAP? Will there be any harm to manually inserting people into the XWiki user store ahead of implementing the new LDAP auth service class? I need to get users using the wiki asap, and I can't wait until I have the new auth service class implemented.... -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Custom-authentication%2C-LDAP-configuration-tp3031494p3... Sent from the XWiki- Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.