Hi IAM Team,

One of the problems we've heard from a number of customers, especially in
support is, WSO2 IS implements its own identity management functionality,
irrespective of the standard attributes that are defined in Active
Directory (AD). This problem is specific to users who are using AD and
expect to see a consistent state of the user in both WSO2 IS and AD. This
is important because there can be many other applications also connecting
to the same AD.

Some of these common identity management features I've seen that are
supported by both WSO2 IS and AD are (there are more which we have to
search):
1. Account status
2. Account expiry
3. Invalid password attempts
4. Invalid password time
5. Password age
6. Password complexity policies
7. Last logon time

Even right now the WSO2 identity management implementation has the ability
to store the identity management data either internally in the database or
in the external user store, which will be AD if it is connected as the user
store. Certain features might even work without any incompatibility issues.
But AFAIU the main problem for most of the features that don't work
seamlessly will be the data format that is used to store in AD and the data
format expected by WSO2 IS.

So what I am suggesting is to have an extension that can work in concert
with AD attributes so that a consistent view of the user is seen across all
applications in the environment. The work would primarily involve
researching into AD attributes and making sure we map one-to-one in terms
of the claims and the data formats are consistent. I am talking only about
AD, because generalizing the implementation for all LDAPs could be hard.
But this might also be something to do some research and find.

Thanks & Regards,
Johann.

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