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LDAP sync deletes existing users

lueders — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:36:33 GMT

With Alfresco Community 3.2 (stable) I ran into the following problem:Users that have been previously created by the 3.1 LDAP sync are being erased and recreated by the new 3.2 sync.Does anybody know how to upgrade the old users in a way that they won't be recreated?Otherwise all group memberships

Re: LDAP sync deletes existing users

dward — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:30:39 GMT

See http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=20864&p=68422#p68422

Re: LDAP sync deletes existing users

dward — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:47:16 GMT

FYI a fix for this has now been merged to HEAD (revision 15637). Here's the change comment:

LDAP sync will no longer delete and recreate colliding users and groups in zones that aren't even in the authentication chain.
- Instead such users and groups will be 're-zoned' to the first zone where they were found
- Avoids losing site memberships, etc. on upgrade or change of authentication chain
- Will continue to recreate users and groups from lower priority zones in the authentication chain
- Updated unit tests appropriately

Re: LDAP sync deletes existing users

benswitzer — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:58:59 GMT

Sweet! That was quick.

Re: LDAP sync deletes existing users

lueders — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 01:07:55 GMT

Wow! Thanks a lot!

Re: LDAP sync deletes existing users

jsosic — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:02:21 GMT

And how exactly did you set up LDAP syncronization for Alfresco Community? I've installed 3.2r2, but haven't set up any kind of syncronization…

Re: LDAP sync deletes existing users

dward — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:32:35 GMT

Please read http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_Authentication_Subsystems#Configuration_2

Re: LDAP sync deletes existing users

jsosic — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:32:41 GMT

OK, I did that but I have some minor issues. Here is a description:
http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=23589&p=77098#p77098