Add ldap authentication

[thedaftbadger]

Add the possibility of adding LDAP authentication for users.

[mrvautin]

How would this work? You setup an LDAP server in the config. Admin accounts can setup a user id which is allowed to login and sets LDAP as authentication method. When an allowed user logs in, if authentication is set to LDAP, the user credentials are checked against the LDAP server set in the config?

[thedaftbadger]

Exactly that :)

Or the way we have seen this in the past is either you allow on a user ID basis in LDAP or a security group. Ideally you would allow an LDAP security group permission to login and then set the edit level of that allowed group in openKB.

That way it is much easier for IT admins to administer access to openKB and uses existing organisation permission structures.

[thedaftbadger]

@mrvautin this might be of some help!?? Using LDAP authentication for node.js

[xiddic]

I agree with thedaftbadger, Best way to solve LDAP authentication would be to be able to link security Group "names" to specific roles inside openkb (defined in open kb)?.

I just started out with node.js so im not able to implement it.

[Wardrop]

+1 This is a requirement for most organisations looking to use openKB internally.