Hi Christian,

Thank you a lot for your reply!

Rick


Am Freitag, 21. August 2015 02:45:21 UTC+2 schrieb Christian Hammond:
>
> Hi Rik,
>
> Review Board will try to use LDAP first for any usernames/passwords, and 
> then fall back to what's in the database. Any existing users will be able 
> to log in as they can now. If their usernames match the usernames in LDAP, 
> then they'll be able to log in with their LDAP credentials.
>
> I wouldn't recommend removing any data in the database, and we certainly 
> won't do it when switching auth backends.
>
> Christian
>
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> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 5:41 AM, Rik Coor <coronar...@gmail.com 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> As per the object, I have already quite some user (all registered 
>> manually via standard registration) and reviews. Now I was thinking about 
>> moving to LDAP authentication (I have already a ldap server in place). 
>> What would happen to the manually registered users and their reviews in 
>> that case? Will they stay (perhaps disabled) or will they be removed?
>>
>> Reading here:
>>
>>
>> https://www.reviewboard.org/docs/manual/2.5/admin/configuration/authentication-settings/#id2
>>
>>
>> Misconfiguring authentication can leave you unable to log in to your 
>>> Review Board server to fix it. In this case, you can reset the 
>>> authentication backend back to the builtin database method with the 
>>> *rb-site* command:
>>>
>>> $ rb-site manage /path/to/site set-siteconfig -- --key=auth_backend 
>>> --value=builtin
>>>
>>>
>> ...it seems that in the worst case one can still revert the 
>> authentication method, but I don't think it would solve any eventual 
>> removed entry in the db (users/reviews).
>>
>>
>> Did anybody had any experience with that?
>>
>> Thx for any info!
>>
>> Rik
>>
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