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
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