[jira] [Commented] (AMQ-6148) When use LDAP auth, Activemq should not always connect to ldap service to do authentication

["JIE CHEN (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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JIE CHEN commented on AMQ-6148:
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Hi Timothy,
I am talking about AUTHENTICATION, not authorization. The cached LDAP Authorization Map does NOT help at all. 
In our case, we have hundreds of application servers, and we use pooled connection factory with max connection number of 5. The ActiveMQ server has to create more than a thousand connections to LDAP service when it is trying to establish the huge number of connections from application servers. That does not make sense and ldap server could deny access due to the huge number of connections to it. Think about if we have 5 ActiveMQ servers, each server has to create 1000 connections to LDAP server. sooner or later, the ldap server will be exhausted.

This is an real ISSUE when we are trying to adopt ActiveMQ for big application clusters.

Thanks

> When use LDAP auth, Activemq should not always connect to ldap service to do authentication
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>
>                 Key: AMQ-6148
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-6148
>             Project: ActiveMQ
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 5.11.1
>            Reporter: JIE CHEN
>            Priority: Critical
>
> I am using LDAP service to do authentication for ActiveMQ, and I found everytime ActiveMQ servers try to establish a connection between ActiveMQ client, the ActiveMQ server will create a connection to LDAP server to do authentication. That's is not good, think about there are thousands of ActiveMQ clients are trying to connect to ActiveMQ servers, the ActiveMQ servers will need to create thousands of connections to LDAP servers. And moreover it is not reliable as well because the connection between LDAP servers and ActiveMQ servers could be broken sometimes. We need something similar as Cached LDAP Authorization Module. It is more reasonable that the ActiveMQ will cache the ldap account credential in local memory and refresh in certain interval.



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