The WSO2 User Manager authenticates users from different types of user stores and currently has the capability to easily plug-in to LDAP, Active Directory and XManaging External User Stores JDBC to perform authentication.
How to Configure an External LDAP User Store / Active Directory User Store Anchor LDABActive LDABActive
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All WSO2 Carbon based products can read and write users and roles from external LDAP user stores. You can configure Carbon products to access LDAP in one of the following modes.
Read-Only Mode Anchor Read-Only Mode Read-Only Mode
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| Read-Only Mode |
All WSO2 Carbon based products can read users and roles from external LDAP/Active Directory user stores. You can configure Carbon products to read users/roles from your company LDAP. The "Read Only" mode does not write any data into the LDAP.
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Property Name | Description |
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| MaxUserNameListLength | |
ConnectionURL | The connection URL to the database. |
ConnectionName | The user name used to connect to the database. |
ConnectionPassword | Password of the connection username. |
UserSearchBase | Search base of users. |
UserNameListFilter | The LDAP query that should be used to search users. |
UserNameAttribute | Users can be authenticated using their email address, uid and etc. |
ReadLDAPGroups | Indicates whether to read groups from the LDAP. |
GroupSearchBase | Search base for groups. |
| GroupNameListFilter | |
GroupSearchFilter | The LDAP query used to search for groups. |
GroupNameAttribute | The attribute to be treated as the group name. |
MembershipAttribute | Attribute that contains users. |
| UserRolesCacheEnabled | |
| ReplaceEscapeCharactersAtUserLogin |
Read/Write Mode Anchor Read/Write Users and Read-Only Groups Read/Write Users and Read-Only Groups
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| Read/Write Users and Read-Only Groups |
If you wish to connect to external LDAP user store such that only the user entries are written to external LDAP and roles are not written to external LDAP, the only difference from the steps in section "Read-Only Mode" is in following:
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<UserStoreManager class="org.wso2.carbon.user.core.ldap.ReadWriteLDAPUserStoreManager"> |
How to Configure an External JDBC User Store Anchor JDBC JDBC
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All Carbon based products can work with external RDBMSs. You can configure Carbon to read users/roles from your company RDBMS and even write to it. Therefore, the user core connected to two databases.
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