On 10/06/14 20:39, Jamie Baddeley wrote:
>
>     > Has anyone done this before? If so I'll push back on the AD admin
>     > to try harder.
>

You can't do it using a single LDAP connector. AD trusts are not
transitive across forests, so an LDAP connection to an AD domain
controller can only authenticate users in that forest - not any other.

And as you've discovered, almost every "LDAP enabled" product out there
appears to be ignorant of that fact and only support a single forest
(they think domain, but it is forest). Either you can try to create an
LDAP proxy that merges several LDAP backends into one (good luck with
that, I never managed it), or you need to look at something besides LDAP.

Owncloud supports a "webdav authentication" backend too - you could use
that instead. Basically it takes the username and password the user
types into the form and throws it at an HTTP backend of your choice: you
could pass that to (say) IIS - which can do multi-forest authentication.
However, you will lose all ability to manage users within owncloud as
that backend doesn't have the appropriate hooks owncloud needs. You
could also look at SAML - basically you need to move the multi-forest
problem off onto a backend that can support it

All conjecture on my part, but one of them might work

-- 
Cheers

Jason Haar
Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd.
Phone: +1 408 481 8171
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