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[[_ldap]]
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=== LDAP and Active Directory
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{project_name} comes with a built-in LDAP/AD provider. It is possible to federate multiple different LDAP servers in the same
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{project_name} realm. You can map LDAP user attributes into the {project_name} common user model.
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By default, it maps username, email, first name, and last name, but you are free to configure additional <<_ldap_mappers,mappings>>.
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The LDAP provider also supports password validation via LDAP/AD protocols and different storage, edit, and synchronization modes.
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To configure a federated LDAP store go to the Admin Console.
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Click on the `User Federation` left menu option.
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When you get to this page there is an `Add Provider` select box.
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You should see _ldap_ within this list.
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Selecting _ldap_ will bring you to the LDAP configuration page.
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==== Storage Mode
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By default, {project_name} will import users from LDAP into the local {project_name} user database. This copy of the user
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is either synchronized on demand, or through a periodic background task.
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The one exception to this is passwords. Passwords are not imported and password validation is
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delegated to the LDAP server. The benefits to this approach is that all {project_name} features will work as any extra
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per-user data that is needed can be stored locally. This approach also reduces load on the LDAP server as uncached users are loaded
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from the {project_name} database the 2nd time they are accessed. The only load your LDAP server will have is password validation.
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The downside to this approach is that when a user is first queried, this will require a {project_name} database insert. The import will
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also have to be synchronized with your LDAP server as needed.
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Alternatively, you can choose not to import users into the {project_name} user database. In this case, the common user model
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that the {project_name} runtime uses is backed only by the LDAP server. This means that if LDAP doesn't support
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a piece of data that a {project_name} feature needs that feature will not work.
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The benefit to this approach is that you do not have the overhead of importing and synchronizing a copy of the LDAP user into the
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{project_name} user database.
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This storage mode is controled by the `Import Users` switch. Set to `On` to import users.
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==== Edit Mode
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Users, through the <<_account-service, User Account Service>>, and admins through the Admin Console
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have the ability to modify user metadata. Depending on your setup you may or may not have LDAP update privileges. The
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`Edit Mode` configuration option defines the edit policy you have with your LDAP store.
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READONLY::
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Username, email, first name, last name, and other mapped attributes will be unchangeable.
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{project_name} will show an error anytime anybody tries to update these fields.
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Also, password updates will not be supported.
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WRITABLE::
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Username, email, first name, last name, and other mapped attributes and passwords can all be updated and will be synchronized automatically with your LDAP store.
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UNSYNCED::
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Any changes to username, email, first name, last name, and passwords will be stored in {project_name} local storage.
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It is up to you to figure out how to synchronize back to LDAP. This allows {project_name} deployments to support
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updates of user metadata on a read-only LDAP server. This option only applies when you are importing users from LDAP into the local {project_name} user database.
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==== Other config options
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Console Display Name::
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Name used when this provider is referenced in the admin console
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Priority::
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The priority of this provider when looking up users or adding a user.
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Sync Registrations::
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Does your LDAP support adding new users? Click this switch if you want new users created by {project_name} in the admin console or the registration page
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to be added to LDAP.
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Allow Kerberos authentication::
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Enable Kerberos/SPNEGO authentication in realm with users data provisioned from LDAP.
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More info in <<_kerberos,Kerberos section>>.
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Other options::
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The rest of the configuration options should be self explanatory.
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You can mouseover the tooltips in Admin Console to see some more details about them.
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==== Connect to LDAP over SSL
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When you configure a secured connection URL to your LDAP store(for example `ldaps://myhost.com:636` ),
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{project_name} will use SSL for the communication with LDAP server.
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The important thing is to properly configure a truststore on the {project_name} server side, otherwise {project_name} can't trust the SSL connection to LDAP.
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The global truststore for the {project_name} can be configured with the Truststore SPI. Please check out the link:{installguide_link}[{installguide_name}] for more detail.
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If you don't configure the truststore SPI, the truststore will fallback to the default mechanism provided by Java (either the file provided by system property `javax.net.ssl.trustStore`
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or the cacerts file from the JDK if the system property is not set).
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There is a configuration property `Use Truststore SPI` in the LDAP federation provider configuration, where you can choose whether the Truststore SPI is used.
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By default, the value is `Only for ldaps`, which is fine for most deployments. The Truststore SPI will only be used
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if the connection to LDAP starts with `ldaps`.
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==== Sync of LDAP users to {project_name}
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If you have import enabled, the LDAP Provider will automatically take care of synchronization (import) of needed LDAP users into the {project_name} local database.
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As users log in, the LDAP provider will import the LDAP user
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into the {project_name} database and then authenticate against the LDAP password. This is the only time users will be imported.
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If you go to the `Users` left menu item in the Admin Console and click the `View all users` button, you will only see those LDAP users that
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have been authenticated at least once by {project_name}. It is implemented this way so that admins don't accidentally try to import a huge LDAP DB of users.
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If you want to sync all LDAP users into the {project_name} database, you may configure and enable the `Sync Settings` of the LDAP provider you configured.
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There are 2 types of synchronization:
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Periodic Full sync::
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This will synchronize all LDAP users into {project_name} DB.
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Those LDAP users, which already exist in {project_name} and were changed in LDAP directly will be updated in {project_name} DB
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(For example if user `Mary Kelly` was changed in LDAP to `Mary Smith`).
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Periodic Changed users sync::
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When syncing occurs, only those users that were created or updated after the last sync will be updated and/or imported.
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The best way to handle syncing is to click the `Synchronize all users` button when you first create the LDAP provider,
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then set up a periodic sync of changed users. The configuration page for your LDAP Provider has several options to support you.
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[[_ldap_mappers]]
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==== LDAP Mappers
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LDAP mappers are `listeners`, which are triggered by the LDAP Provider at various points, provide another extension point to LDAP integration.
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They are triggered when a user logs in via LDAP and needs to be imported, during {project_name} initiated registration, or when a user is queried from the Admin Console.
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When you create an LDAP Federation provider, {project_name} will automatically provide set of built-in `mappers` for this provider.
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You are free to change this set and create a new mapper or update/delete existing ones.
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User Attribute Mapper::
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This allows you to specify which LDAP attribute is mapped to which attribute of {project_name} user.
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So, for example, you can configure that LDAP attribute `mail` to the attribute `email` in the {project_name} database.
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For this mapper implementation, there is always a one-to-one mapping (one LDAP attribute is mapped to one {project_name} attribute)
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FullName Mapper::
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This allows you to specify that the full name of the user, which is saved in some LDAP attribute (usually `cn` ) will be mapped to `firstName` and `lastname` attributes in the {project_name} database.
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Having `cn` to contain full name of user is a common case for some LDAP deployments.
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Role Mapper::
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This allows you to configure role mappings from LDAP into {project_name} role mappings.
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One Role mapper can be used to map LDAP roles (usually groups from a particular branch of LDAP tree) into roles corresponding to either realm roles or client roles of a specified client.
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It's not a problem to configure more Role mappers for the same LDAP provider.
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So for example you can specify that role mappings from groups under
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`ou=main,dc=example,dc=org` will be mapped to realm role mappings and role mappings from groups under
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`ou=finance,dc=example,dc=org` will be mapped to client role mappings of client `finance` .
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Hardcoded Role Mapper::
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This mapper will grant a specified {project_name} role to each {project_name} user linked with LDAP.
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Group Mapper::
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This allows you to configure group mappings from LDAP into {project_name} group mappings.
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Group mapper can be used to map LDAP groups from a particular branch of an LDAP tree into groups in {project_name}.
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It will also propagate user-group mappings from LDAP into user-group mappings in {project_name}.
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MSAD User Account Mapper::
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This mapper is specific to Microsoft Active Directory (MSAD). It's able to tightly integrate the MSAD user account state
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into the {project_name} account state (account enabled, password is expired etc).
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It's using the `userAccountControl` and `pwdLastSet` LDAP attributes. (both are specific to MSAD and are not LDAP standard).
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For example if `pwdLastSet` is `0`, the {project_name} user is required to update their password
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and there will be an UPDATE_PASSWORD required action added to the user. If `userAccountControl` is
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`514` (disabled account) the {project_name} user is disabled as well.
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Certificate Mapper::
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This mapper is specific for mapping X.509 certificates. It will generally be used in conjunction with X.509 authentication
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and `Full certificate in PEM format` as an identity source.
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It behaves the same way as the `User Attribute Mapper`, but allows {project_name} to filter for an LDAP attribute which stores
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a certificate in either PEM or DER format. It is generally advised to enable `Always Read Value From LDAP` with this mapper.
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By default, there are User Attribute mappers that map basic {project_name} user attributes like username, firstname, lastname, and email to corresponding LDAP attributes.
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You are free to extend these and provide additional attribute mappings.
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Admin console provides tooltips, which should help with configuring the corresponding mappers.
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[[_ldap_password_hashing]]
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==== Password Hashing
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When the password of user is updated from {project_name} and sent to LDAP, it is always sent in plain-text. This is different from
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updating the password to built-in {project_name} database, when the hashing and salting is applied to the password before it is sent to DB.
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In the case of LDAP, the {project_name} relies on the LDAP server to provide hashing and salting of passwords.
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Most of LDAP servers (Microsoft Active Directory, RHDS, FreeIPA) provide this by default. Some others (OpenLDAP, ApacheDS) may store the passwords
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in plain-text by default and you may need to explicitly enable password hashing for them. See the documentation of your LDAP server more details.
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