topic Re: AD/LDAP Authentication account creation without Sync in Alfresco Archive

AD/LDAP Authentication account creation without Sync

sem — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:01:46 GMT

HiIve got 4.2.d nightly installed as a test and have LDAP (active directory) authentication enabled. I'm currently using synchronization.authCreatePeopleOnLogin=true so that when a new user logs into Share for the first time, an account is created for them - we can then add users to groups as requi

Re: AD/LDAP Authentication account creation without Sync

mrogers — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:32:27 GMT

No - I don't think there is a configuration option to just sync the user's attributes. It would be a fairly easy enhancement though.

Re: AD/LDAP Authentication account creation without Sync

sem — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:56:36 GMT

Hi - thanks for the reply. It would be really useful in (I'm sure) a lot of environments. I'm really pleased with how the LDAP authentication worked so far - and it's cool that an Alfresco user account can be created on the fly, at first login.

Is this something that could be put in as a feature request somewhere?

mark

Re: AD/LDAP Authentication account creation without Sync

sem — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 11:45:01 GMT

Hi. Regarding the query in this thread, does anyone have an idea which file (authentication subsystem?) that I could look at and at least get the email address populated from the AD information?

Latest 4.2.d (stable) doesn't change the way accounts are auto-created.

sem