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icarrion

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Registered: 2009-01-27

Posts: 8

Authentication using two Active Directories

Hi,

My customer is migrating the Active Directory. So they have two Active Directory to authenticate the users. We have propose to import all the users from the two AD and change the user LDAP server in GLPI when the users is migrated from one AD to the other. But the customer doesn't like this solution. They want to choose the AD in the login page. For example, they want to introduce the user like this: dominio\user. The same that in a Windows System. Is it possible?

Thanks,

GLPI 0.71.5 XAMPP 1.7.0 Windows 2003 Server

jpalmer99

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Registered: 2008-08-29

Posts: 17

Re: Authentication using two Active Directories

Not sure if they could use domain\user.  But if no user names are the same just setting up 2 different connections to the active directories should work ok.  Then they would just use <username> to logon.

wawa

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From: Montpellier / France

Registered: 2006-07-03

Posts: 6,019

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Re: Authentication using two Active Directories

hello
you won't be able to do what you want
glpi can authenticate to more than one directory, but if the users are the same on 2 of them, then it'll take the first one as the good one for the user
if the users are the same, jpalmer99 is right, you can remove the first directory and replace by another one, it should be transparent

icarrion

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Registered: 2009-01-27

Posts: 8

Re: Authentication using two Active Directories

Ok. So I have to say to my customer that it's impossible.

Thanks for all,

Iñigo

somersetit

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Registered: 2006-07-20

Posts: 33

Re: Authentication using two Active Directories

impossible?  No, but you would have to get your hands dirty in the code for that and possibly modify a table or two.

We have that need for other applications that we built and have gotten it to work using a database field on a user table, but this does not apply to GLPI. 

If this comes up and we build it, I will make sure I push the code back to the developers here.  Don't hold your breadth though. 

jpalmer99

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Registered: 2008-08-29

Posts: 17

Re: Authentication using two Active Directories

Just to clarify (and someone correct me if this is not right), you can have the two different AD's configured.  The only problem you will have is with any duplicate user names.  If there are duplicates only one of them will work.  Otherwise it will be fine.

Last edited by jpalmer99 (2009-02-10 23:46:03)