User kernel of Carbon has the following new features:
- The concept of single user store. The user store can be either external or internal.
- Default internal user store is embedded-apacheds LDAP.
- Ability to operate in read-only mode on your company's LDAP and Active Directory user stores.
- 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 Direcotry user stores
- Implements management permission of the carbon console
The user core is driven by the user-mgt.xml found in the following location.
${carbon-home}/repository/conf/user-mgt.xml
Please, visit the following pages to learn more information about the user core kernel usage: