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angela updated OAK-3498:
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    Priority: Major  (was: Critical)

> DN can't be used as the group name in the external auth handler
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>
>                 Key: OAK-3498
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OAK-3498
>             Project: Jackrabbit Oak
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: auth-external
>    Affects Versions: 1.3.7, 1.2.7, 1.0.22
>            Reporter: Tomek Rękawek
>         Attachments: OAK-3498-1.0.patch, OAK-3498-trunk.patch
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> One of the users wants to migrate his repository from Jackrabbit 2 to Oak. He 
> uses LDAP for authentication. The LDAP synchronization in Jackrabbit 2 is 
> configured in such manner, that both principal id and authorizable name is 
> set to the DN (eg. {{CN=my-group,OU=abc,...}}).
> After migration to Oak LDAP users can't login. The reason is that during the 
> login, the {{DefaultSyncContext}} tries to synchronize all groups memberships 
> and create missing groups. By default it uses CN as the group name and tries 
> to find it. It fails, because the migrated group has a name created with its 
> DN. It assumes that the group doesn't exist and then wants to create it - 
> which fails as well, because group with the given principal name already 
> exists. As a result, the whole login process fails.
> The LDAP attribute to be used as the group name can be configured. However, 
> the DN is not an attribute, so setting {{group.nameAttribute="dn"}} in 
> {{LdapProviderConfig}} results in a {{NullPointerException}}.
> I think two things can be improved here:
> 1. {{DefaultSyncContext}} should try to find a group using its principal name 
> rather than group id.
> 2. It should be possible to use DN as the {{group.nameAttribute}}.



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