Hi dev_list users! We are currently trying to use a OpenLDAP server for authentication of users & groups with jahia. In fact it does work pretty well so far. But since we have a system in production environment, I would be extremely interested in knowing what impact a change from database stored users & groups toward LDAP based users & groups would have. The documentation is pretty thin on this topic on the jahia side.
In fact I prefer a hybrid solution currently. The users are stored at a LDAP server, with groups remaining solely in the jahia database. The users get associated by *some magic* (tm) to existing groups and the old db based users are deleted. The *some magic* (tm) would ideally be a migration script which moves jahia users from the jahia user_db to a ldap server. Then these newly created ldap users would be associated automatically with the corresponding jahia group their old database users were associated with before. And last but not least the db_users would be deleted. I did find some interesting XML configuration file called "ldap- migration.xml" which seems to address pretty much the same problem. Did someone use the mechanism used there? And please if you did something with LDAP & Jahia before... tell me your experiences. Especially regarding data integrity (ACLs, WebDAV) of the system after LDAP integration. Best Regards Daniel Zimmermann
