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 > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 21:30, Abel Solórzano Astorga > <abelsolorzano(a)gmail.com> > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list > > users(a)xwiki.org > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > > > > -- > Thomas Mortagne > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > users(a)xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users >