+1 here.
The new GeoServer security subsystem has to settle down and due to my
experience, most bug fixes / enhancements deserve to be backported.
2013/6/27 Mauro Bartolomeoli <[email protected]>
> Hi everybody,
> Forwarding a thread from the users list to the developers list.
>
> Summarizing: I would like to backport GEOS-5805 (improvements to LDAP
> AuthenticationProvider to allow usage with ActiveDirectory servers) to
> 2.3.x. I have currently tested it with a local Windows 2012 server and with
> a customer that is testing the latest master nightly build with their
> Windows 2008 server with good results (users are authenticated and roles
> correctly assigned based on Windows group membership, following the
> tutorial here:
> http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/security/tutorials/activedirectory/index.html
>
>
> [Mauro]
>
>>
>>> Yes, sure, and this is already done with GEOS-5805 on master (using the
>>> new option bindBeforeGroupSearch), but that enhancement has not been
>>> backported to 2.3.x yet (by the way, I was thinking to backport it, after
>>> 2.3.3 is out, what do you think about that?).
>>>
>>
>> [Andrea]
>
>> Sounds reasonable to me, but I'm not too familiar with the LDAP code, we
>> should hear from Justin
>> too, and ask on the geoserver-devel list just to make sure.
>> Afaik you have been using the GEOS-5805 results on the stable series
>> already (in a pre-production
>> environment? or was it production?) and it's working fine, right?
>>
>
> [Justin]
> >>> All for the backport. The ldap code pre the changes was mauro wasn't
> exactly rock solid :) I think these changes make it much more useful. +1
> and great work Mauro.
>
> So... other opinions?
>
> Mauro
>
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