Configuring User Stores

WSO2 products allow configuring multiple user stores to your system that are used to store users and their roles (Groups). Out of the box WSO2 products support JDBC, LDAP and Active Directory user stores with the capability of configuring custom user stores. There are different user store adapters called User store managers, which are used to connect with these users store types.

There are two types of user stores - Primary User store (Mandatory) and Secondary user stores (Optional). All the supported user stores can be configured under these two types.

Primary User Store (Mandatory)

This is the main user store that is shared among all the tenants in the system. Only one user store should be configured as the primary user store and it is configured in the <PRODUCT_HOME>/repository/conf/user-mgt.xml file. By default, the embedded H2 database (JDBC) that is shipped with WSO2 products is configured as the primary user store, except for WSO2 Identity Server, which has an embedded LDAP as its primary user store. It is recommended to change this default configuration in the production system.

Secondary User Store(s) (Optional)

Any number of secondary user stores can be easily set up for your system and these user stores are specific to the created tenant, and they are not shared among multiple tenants. 
You can use the management console to create secondary user stores or you can create them manually. These will be stored as an XML file in the file system and use the same XML format that is used to configure primary user store.

User Store Manager

Adapters used to connect with different users stores are called User Store Managers. By default, there are user store managers for JDBC, LDAP and Active Directory user stores. If you need to add a new user store implementation, see Writing a Custom User Store Manager. When you configure the user store, you have to set the user store manager class name.

The following topics include instructions on setting up user stores:

• Configuring the Primary User Store
• Configuring Secondary User Stores
• Configuring a JDBC User Store
• Configuring a Read-only LDAP User Store
• Configuring a Read-Write Active Directory User Store
• Configuring a Read-write LDAP User Store
• Writing a Custom User Store Manager