- #HOW TO ADD A USER TO NEW GROUP WITH APACHE DIRECTORY STUDIO HOW TO#
- #HOW TO ADD A USER TO NEW GROUP WITH APACHE DIRECTORY STUDIO DOWNLOAD#
Click "Add new connector" and create a new Connector of type ".ldap". Click on "Topology" in the left-hand menu, and on the ConnId instance on the map. The next thing to do is to define a Connector to enable Syncope to talk to the Apache DS backend. Now the users we create in Syncope can have a "surname" attribute. Select "surname" from the list of available plain Schema attributes. Now go into the "AnyTypeClasses" tab and edit the "BaseUser" item. Add "surname" for the Key and click "save". Click on the "Schemas" tab and then the "+" button associated with "PLAIN". Select "Configuration" and then "Types" in the left hand menu. The Schema configuration is quite different in the Admin Console compared to Syncope 1.2.x. We will map this into an internal User attribute in Apache Syncope. The inetOrgPerson instances we created in Apache DS have a "sn" (surname) attribute. Make sure that an LDAP Connector bundle is available (see here).
#HOW TO ADD A USER TO NEW GROUP WITH APACHE DIRECTORY STUDIO DOWNLOAD#
Download and launch an Apache Syncope 2.0.x instance. The next task is to import (pull) the user dataįrom Apache DS into Apache Syncope. Specify "sn" (surname) and "userPassword" attributes for both users. Now edit the groups you created such that both alice and bob are employees, but only alice is a boss. Create two new users (inetOrgPerson) "cn=alice,ou=users,ou=system" and "cn=bob,ou=users,ou=system". I recommend installing Apache Directory Studio for an easy way to create and view the data stored in your directory.Ĭreate two new groups (groupOfNames) in the default domain ("dc=example,dc=com") called "cn=employee,ou=groups,ou=system" and "cn=boss,ou=groups,ou=system". The first step is to download and launch Apache DS. Information that we would like to import into Apache Syncope 2.0.0. The basic scenario is that we have a directory that stores user and group
#HOW TO ADD A USER TO NEW GROUP WITH APACHE DIRECTORY STUDIO HOW TO#
For this reason, in this tutorial we will cover how to pull users and groups (previously roles) into Apache Syncope 2.0.0 from an LDAP backend via the Admin Console, as it is a little different from the previous 1.2.x releases.
Interacting with an LDAP backend appears to be a common use-case for Apache Syncope users. A previous tutorial showed how to synchronize (pull) users and roles into Apache Syncope 1.2.x from an LDAP backend (Apache Directory).