Sajeeve - GoCD has LDAP/AD *authentication* support built into it. That 
means, you can connect it to an LDAP server and use it to allow people to 
log in. The username and password you provide is used to bind using LDAP 
and make sure that you're a valid user. The documentation for this is here 
<https://docs.gocd.org/current/configuration/dev_authentication.html> and 
here <https://github.com/gocd/gocd-ldap-authentication-plugin>.

With the LDAP *authorization* plugin, part of commercial support offering, 
along with doing *authentication* like the built in one, it allows you to 
do role management using LDAP. A simple example would be "I want all admins 
defined in AD, to be GoCD admins" or "I want everyone in AD group XYZ to be 
part of the GoCD role ABC". This allows you to manage GoCD roles in a 
central place, that is your LDAP/AD server. If you remove someone from an 
Active Directory group, they will be removed from the GoCD role. It's 
easier for bigger organizations to manage roles in one place. The 
documentation for this is here 
<https://extensions-docs.gocd.org/ldap/current/>. As you can see from the 
examples <https://extensions-docs.gocd.org/ldap/current/examples/>, it 
allows you to configure it in quite complex ways.

On Wednesday, January 17, 2018 at 10:38:40 PM UTC+5:30, Sajeeve M wrote:
>
> We would like to  manage out gocd users at a   group level . Looks like 
> the roles (admin , etc ) is allowed to be set at a user level 
>

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