18 Apr
2010
18 Apr
'10
2:42 a.m.
Great answer Tomas, Tanks a lot. I am going to start to work on that.
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com
wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 21:30, Abel Solórzano Astorga
> <abelsolorzano(a)gmail.com wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a question :).
> >
> > First this is my situation: I am using XWiki as the company support site
> > and I want to be able to authenticate the company users (internal users)
> on
> > XWiki using their domain name and the clients (external users) using
> their
> > personal e-mail. At the moment the company users are being authenticated
> > against an Active Directory server by their domain name.
> >
> > Is there a way to authenticate a group of users to a LDAP server by their
> > e-mail addresses and another group of users to an Active Directory in a
> > different server by their domain name?
>
> Not in standard, you would have to do your own authenticator for that.
> If you know a little java the easiest for you is probably to extends
> com.xpn.xwiki.user.impl.LDAP.XWikiLDAPAuthServiceImpl class with your
> own and implement your dispatching code here.
>
> Problem is that since you are not yet authenticated you have no idea
> what is the group of the user.
>
> Some solutions you could implement in your authenticator:
> - find a way to indicate authentication mode to use:
> - take any login containing @ char as a mail
> - add a field in the login page to let user explicitly indicate
> their "authentication mode", you would also need to modify login page
> code to find a way to transmit the information to the authenticator
> (since authentication api only support 2 fields: a login and a
> password)
> - try systematically one authentication and then try the other one if
> the first one failed (for example standard LDAP authenticator try LDAP
> and then standard XWiki if LDAP failed which is why you can
> authenticate with a LDAP user or a XWiki user with LDAP
> authenticator).
>
> >
> > Regards,
> > Abel
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