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Does an LDAP Sync create AlfrescoNTLM accounts?

mkramer2 — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:38:37 GMT

Dear forum,I've recently started with an alfresco deployment at a university in germany and am battling with the authentication mechanisms.The local directory service is OpenLDAP. Passwords are stored as hashes in LDAP. I would really like to use the CIFS functionality of Alfresco.I will not be able

Re: Does an LDAP Sync create AlfrescoNTLM accounts?

morrison1977 — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:06:26 GMT

Hey, I've got Alfresco 4.2c running at the University of Indianapolis, and I've setup authentication to our Red Hat 389 Directory Server, but I have not been able to get CIFS working.
I posted a similar question but got nothing in way of response. Sadly our main initiative for Alfresco was to be as a replacement for Samba and without that working the project has now been put on the shelf.
Good Luck.

http://forums.alfresco.com/forum/installation-upgrades-configuration-integration/authentication-ldap-sso/cifs-authentication#comments

Re: Does an LDAP Sync create AlfrescoNTLM accounts?

mkramer2 — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:39:10 GMT

CIFS works fine here, though only with local users. Have you thought about embedding a Kerberos KDC into your directory structure?
It should work fine with Kerberos.
Have you tried other authentication options?

Re: Does an LDAP Sync create AlfrescoNTLM accounts?

mrogers — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:33:21 GMT

To answer th op's question. No sync does not create authentication details within alfresco. Sync is independent of authentication and works on person and group objects only.