'Failed to delete User' when using LDAP authentication

[curious_george]

In Alfresco 2.1, I am trying to delete a user. I get the error message: "Failed to delete User due to error: Not implemented". Any idea as to the cause, and solution, of this error?

We are using the default authentication filters (org.alfresco.web.app.servlet.AuthenticationFilter) in conjunction with our LDAP. On the Web UI side, we previously wanted to use the NTLM authentication filter, but could not do so because that required using KeepAlive on the web server. If we enabled KeepAlive, we broke our other web applications.

Now, if we try to delete a user inside Alfresco, we get the "Failed to delete User due to error: Not implemented" error.

Thanks in advance for any help - from what I've read in the wiki and forums, almost everyone uses LDAP with NTLM. In our case, we want to use our LDAP but we don't want to enable NTLM. I'm hoping this isn't any more of a problem.

[sdavis]

If you need to delete the user from LDAP, then you should use your LDAP admin tool of choice.  Alfresco is merely authenticating against it.

[curious_george]

Thanks for the response. Rather, I'm trying to delete the user from within Alfresco. Even if I delete the user from LDAP, the Alfresco user still exists.

I know that as long as the user's LDAP account is deleted, the user won't be able to login (because LDAP won't authenticate). Deleting the user's Alfresco account is just for good housekeeping.