Re: LDAP users

Hi Rutger,

I'm not sure this is possible with Jahia. The 
JahiaUserManagerLDAPProvider would have to be extended to be able to 
provide for multiple container configuration.

Regards,
  Serge Huber.

Rutger Heijmerikx wrote:

>Hi,
>
>While evaluating JAHIA i have a question regarding LDAP.
>I've tested JAHIA against OpenLDAP, Sun One Directory and Novell NDS.
>Every time i managed to connect succesfully to the LDAP database. But
>my problem is that i don't want one container to store all my
>Jahia/portal users in.
>
>Let's say i've got a directory with several containers which contain
>users. I don't want to add those users in the container configured in
>the Jahia users.ldap configuration file also. Doing that results in
>losing the power of my directory.
>
>So i can configure a group that also displays members outside of the
>"users.ldap.uid.search.name" but Jahia only authenticates users
>configured within that context. But i also want to authenticate the
>members of a group that are outside of the users.ldap.uid.search.name
>directory also.
>
>Now i've managed to let Jahia display those users within the groups,
>but it won't authenticate them.
>
>Do you understand my problem?
>If so, can this be solved or configured at this time?
>
>Thank you in advanced for your effort.
>
>  
>