Authenticating the users against an external data source

It is possible from version 3.27 to authenticate the users against an external data source (e.g. a database, a LDAP directory, an XML file), in addition to CAS, Shibboleth and application users (the four kind of users can co-exist).

Set the following property to true:

auth.useSpecific=true

In order to implement your specific authentication, you have to:

• Write your own specific user manager by implementing the interface SpecificUserManager . Two examples are provided:
  • VoidUserManagerImpl does nothing, it is used by default.
  • XmlUserManagerImpl declares its own users in a Spring configuration file (see the last commented part in /properties/domain/userAssignment-specific.xml) 
• Declare the bean specificUserManager as an instance of your class in  /properties/domain/userAssignment-specific.xml  (do not forget to allow the automatic recovering of this file on the next upgrade, see Recovering previous configuration and customizations when upgrading ).