two authentication backends?

[jooray]

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 local windows domain (for external users outside our company). Is this two-backend authentication supported by Alfresco? How do I configure it?

    Thanks,

       Juraj.

[alexander]

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.

[andy]

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