On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 19:28, Jerome Velociter <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Juan, > > If you really want to create users prior to their first login via LDAP > authentication, creating the user from the administration is not > enough. You must add an XWiki.LDAPProfileClass object to the user > document, which precises the LDAP uid of the user. > If you don't do that, a new user will be created when the person > connects for the first time. This is for example what happened with > your users jssmith_1, etc.
This is because without this object LDAP authenticator has no way to know that it's supposed to overwrite this perfectly valid XWiki user so it create a new one to be safe. > > I have contributed an extension to allow automatic LDAP > synchronization (at night for example), so admins that want to give > access rights to their LDAP users don't have to create them manually. > You can find it here > http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/LDAP+Tools > > The synchronization feature only works starting with XWiki Enterprise > 3.0 (not released yet). Though I can provide a built jar to drop in > for 2.7 if anyone is interested. > > Jerome. > > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:36 AM, Juan Carlos Vizueta <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I added my LDAP users to Xwiki manually one by one through the Xwiki >> Administration form, I did that so I can add them to their corresponding >> groups so they have their correct user rights since their first login. >> >> When creating a new user through the form, the password is mandatory, so I >> copy/pasted the user in the password field (e.g.: user jsmith and password >> jsmith as well). >> >> Then when I asked the user to login, she could login correctly, but then I >> thought maybe I should try to login using the password I set on the form, >> and oh surprise, it logged in too!, is this the correct behavior or did I do >> something wrong here? >> >> I need users to login only when entering their ldap password, not their >> xwiki password. >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> JC >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
