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LDAP Authentication (no sync) is creating users?!?

acn — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 09:07:38 GMT

Hallo,I've installed Alfresco 5.0.d and want to use LDAP authentication for users that I create manually in Alfresco - as I do not have the possibility to use LDAP groups or any other filter method on the LDAP server.So I want to create a specific user, enter the LDAP login (+ a random password) and

Re: LDAP Authentication (no sync) is creating users?!?

mrogers — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 16:19:36 GMT

The other setting is on the person service.

# Some authentication mechanisms may need to create people
# in the repository on demand. This enables that feature.
# If disabled an error will be generated for missing
# people. If enabled then a person will be created and
# persisted.
create.missing.people

Re: LDAP Authentication (no sync) is creating users?!?

acn — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 08:28:08 GMT

Hallo,

Where do I have to set this?

It seems to me that it is documented nowhere… 😞
Also

/opt/alfresco$ grep "create.missing.people" -R *‍

does not find a corresponding file for this setting.

It would be great if you could tell me where I have to set this flag.

Thank you!

Anna Christina Naß

Re: LDAP Authentication (no sync) is creating users?!?

mrogers — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:19:00 GMT

As with most alfresco config put it into alfresco-global.properties