I'm not talking about a user not created by the authenticator but
about a user not created at all.

XWiki cannot work with a user that does not exists, if the need is to
forbid user that don't already have an associated XWiki user that's
another thing but it's not how I understood the first mail.

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Ludovic Dubost <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> It does make sense if you have a separate synchronisation system that
> creates the users and groups.
> I have that case and what I did is override the LDAP authenticator and
> block the auto-creation, which is just commenting a few lines.
>
> This requires a bit of Java coding.
>
> Ludovic
>
>
> 2013/2/25 Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]>
>
>> Unfortunately this does not really make sense from XWiki point of view
>> right now.
>>
>> XWiki right management (as well as most applications woring with
>> users) can only work with existing XWiki users (except for a few
>> special cases like XWikiGuest and superadmin) and the first thing we
>> expect from a XWiki authenticator is actually to make sure to
>> associate the user with an existing XWiki user.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 11:13 PM, Jaume Giribert Peraire
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Hi everyone!
>> >
>> > I have just tried this fantastic wiki using the Windows EXE (v4.5) and I
>> > have to say I'm impressed.
>> >
>> > LDAP config just works out of the box and as stated in the config page:
>> >
>> > *Ldap **Enable or not LDAP authentication for this wiki. If enabled and
>> > configured properly, a local user will be created whenever a LDAP user
>> > visit this wiki for the first time.*
>> >
>> > What I really need is to manually disable local user creation from LDAP.
>> I
>> > don't want anybody in the company to create a new user ;)
>> >
>> > I know I can restrict by LDAP groups but almost all users are in the same
>> > cn (I'm not the one who made it!).
>> >
>> > Do anyone has found a workaround for this? I haven't found any "disable
>> > ldap user creation" option.
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance!
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