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two authentication backends?

jooray — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:45:50 GMT

Hello, I would like to deploy Alfresco on our internal system (we use Zimbra and Windows domain, so it would be nice to authenticate against either of those, I believe it's just simple LDAP authentication). But we would like to also have the possibility to create new users outside our Zimbra or lo

Re: two authentication backends?

alexander — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 08:41:45 GMT

Yes, you can used chained authentication and create any sequence of authentication sources, including Alfresco internal one.

There may be problems with CIFS access in this circumstances though.

Re: two authentication backends?

andy — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:05:03 GMT

Hi

There have been updates to the authentication component for full support for chaining. This means one of the back ends can be used for CIFS - previously only one of the authentication components could be wired up in the various places an authentication component is required - now the cahing version can try all as appropriate.

Andy