Hello

I'd like to use LDAP-authentication with my Drupal site.
However, because only a very small group of my domain users will be a publisher on the website I want:

1) Create only those users in advance (and assign them to a predefined role) so that they can logon using their LDAP-credentials
2) The other domain-users (which were not manually created in step 1 should NOT be able to login

Is this possible with the current (or future) release of this module?
And if not, what's the best practice to achieve this?

Regards.

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flatcircle’s picture

flatcircle commented

I tried to create the users manually in Drupal.
However, I can't leave the password field blank (because ldap-users will have to use their own ldap password).

How can I (manually) setup LDAP-users in Drupal so that only those users will use LDAP-authentication?

rbenhase’s picture

rbenhase commented

You can add a dummy password, as it will be overwritten when the user authenticates using their password on the LDAP server.

johnbarclay’s picture

johnbarclay commented

rbenhase is correct, a dummy password will do. However it will not be overwritten since the ldap password isn't stored. Just wanted to point this out since to avoid someone being alarmed at this.

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johnbarclay commented
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rbenhase’s picture

rbenhase commented

Ah, yes, I guess my explanation was a little off-- sorry about that. At any rate, a dummy password is fine as users will use their LDAP password to authenticate.