External authentication and shared accounts

adrian_s — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 12:28:15 GMT

While integrating my application with Alfresco via external authentication subsystem I've noticed that I cannot create a a password for a user if:<ol><li>This user did not exist in Alfresco</li><li>This user was logged in to Alfresco via external authentication subsystem (X-A

Re: External authentication and shared accounts

bdaniel — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 00:55:22 GMT

Hi there, its good to hear you have External authentication working on Alfresco 5. Would you mind sharing how you went about achieving that?

When I had this working in Alfresco 4 I used to create some properties for new users as follows:

What you need is a json array of user properties like userName, firstName, lastName, email, password to use with the alfresco/service/api/people service to create the new user with these properties populated.

Hope that helps.

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