Thanks for the information, it saved me much time. The mirrored AD will
have similar policies but more lenient.

Thanks,
Mark

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 4:03 AM, Fabio Martelli <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Il 22/03/2016 19:17, Mark Pope ha scritto:
>
> We use Active Directory for enterprise authentication. We are building a
> portal for external users. I would like to use AD to store external users
> credentials. This will allow internal users outside access as well(desired).
>
>
>
> Our AD policy locks out accounts after 3 invalid attempts and requires a
> lengthy validation process to re-enable. Because of this, anyone with our
> employee list could lockout all employees with a simple exploit.
>
>
> I would like to create an AD mirror for external authorization where I can
> eliminate policies.
>
>
>
> Does Syncope offer a component that can mirror and sync credentials from
> Active Directory?
>
> Hi Mark, unfortunately syncope does not provide this component.
> Actually, as far as I know you cannot sync credentials from AD because you
> cannot read passwords.
> What you can do at most is to install a DLL to capture change password
> requests, extract provided new passwords and ask syncope to synchronize
> them on external AD.
> ... But in this case you have to ask users to change password before to be
> able to use the new one from outside.
>
>
> BTW, are you sure you are not introducing a security issue?
>
> Kind regards,
> F.
>
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>
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