ID: 2616
Title: LDAP: Improved handling of multiple connections (Name conflicts, cross
directory sync)
Component: Multisite
Level: 1
Class: New Feature
Version: 1.2.7i3
Since Check_MK can synchronize with multiple LDAP directories at the same time, new
situations
could occur which Check_MK did not handle properly for all cases yet.
For example it is possible that name conflicts (user id) occur between LDAP connections
when
different LDAP directories have equal named users. Previous versions did synchronize the
user
using the first connection to be synchronized (take a look at the configuration to check
the
connection order) and silently skipped equal named users from other directories.
This version intruces so called "LDAP connection suffixes" to solve this
situation. This suffix
is used identify name conflicting users between directories. You can use whatever you like
as
suffix, but for better identification it is recommended to use the official domain name as
suffix.
For example "corp.de" if you domain is identified like this.
The connection suffix is appended to the user id for all user accounts having name
conflicts during
the synchronisation.
Additionally, when a user tries to log in with his regular user name, for example
<tt>hh</tt>, but
the login is refused due to the name conflict, he can add the domain suffix to his
username, e.g.
<tt>hh(a)corp.de</tt> to tell Check_MK which directory he is associated to.
Addionionally, it is now possible to configure the role and group sync plugins to gather
group
memberships for the users of a connection from another one. This might be needed when you
have
multiple LDAP directories somehow connected (Active Directory forest) where the users
belong
to one LDAP directory and the groups are found in another LDAP directory. Now, when these
groups have members of the other LDAP directory, these memberships could not be
synchronized
to Check_MK in previous versions. This is now possible to be configured. But the default
is
to gather the group memberships of users from the connection they are associated with.
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