[GitHub] [cloudstack-documentation] DaanHoogland commented on a change in pull request #67: short description of the evolution of LDAP bindings

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DaanHoogland commented on a change in pull request #67: short description of the evolution of LDAP bindings
URL: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-documentation/pull/67#discussion_r312568885
 
 

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 File path: source/adminguide/accounts.rst
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 @@ -279,17 +279,63 @@ or ApacheDS to authenticate CloudStack end-users. CloudStack will search
 the external LDAP directory tree starting at a specified base directory
 and gets user info such as first name, last name, email and username.
 
-Starting with CloudStack 4.11, an ldap connection per domain can be
-defined.
+Starting with CloudStack 4.11, an LDAP connection per domain can be
+defined. In this domain autosync per account can be confirgured,
+keeping the users in the domain up to date with their group membership
+in LDAP.
+.. Note:: A caveat with this is that ApacheDS does not yet support the
+virtual 'memberOf' attribute needed to check if a user moved to
+another account. MicrosoftAD and openldap as well as openDJ do support
+this. It is a planned feature for ApacheDS that can be tracked in
+https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRSERVER-1844.
 
 Review comment:
   hm, it means that apacheDS users cannot used the preferred way of connecting ACS to LDAP. seemed relevant to me.

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