The user kernel of Carbon has the following new features:
- The concept of single user store. The user store can be either external or internal.
- Ability to configure multiple user stores in simple steps.
- Default internal user store is embedded-apache LDAP.
- Ability to operate in read-only mode on your organization's LDAP and Active Directory userstores.
- Ability to operate in read-write mode on internal and external user stores.
- Supports any custom realm.
- Roles can contain users from external user stores.
- Improved configurability for external user stores.
- Capability to read/write roles from/to LDAP/Active Directory user stores.
- Implements management permission of the carbon console.
The user core is driven by the user-mgt.xml file, located in $PRODUCT_HOME/repository/conf/user-mgt.xml
This section provides the following information: