[midPoint] Sync from multiple directories into one global

[Patrick Brunmayr]

Thank you that helped a lot. I was expecting some kind of answer regarding the different password hadling in LDAP implementations. My primary LDAP is OpenLDAP and i want to transfert it to an ApacheDS.

Am 13.10.2016 um 11:19 schrieb Radovan Semancik:
Hi,

Yes and maybe.

Yes, midPoint can sync almost anything with almost anything else, it just a matter of connector. We have good LDAP connector. So if your LDAP servers are at least a tiny bit reasonable you should be able to do that synchronization. Even including things like DN rewriting and value transformations. And you can keep those LDAP servers in sync for a long time. That's what midPoint is built for.

But when it comes to passwords the answer is "maybe". It may work or it might not. All the LDAP servers that I have seen store the passwords in a hashed forms. That hash is for all practical purposes irreversible. While it is usually quite easy to read the hashed value, some servers might have trouble storing the hashed values (instead of cleartext password). Some servers require special settings or privilege, other may not be able to do it at all. You have to check that with your LDAP server. Also the hashing schemes are only de-facto agreement implemented by some servers, it is not a real standard. So the hashing in your old LDAP a new LDAP might not be compatible. And then there is a small chance of some potential issues in our LDAP connector and/or midPoint. We have done something similar in the past. But it was a different LDAP connector then. We haven't tested this with the new LDAP connector so there may be some bugs. But I'm quite confident that we can easily fix any bugs there if needed. There may be also some tricks that we have to use, so midPoint will not interpret the hash as a password cleartext and it won't try to hash it again. But I believe this is possible to do if the hash is stored in a custom property. Or by using some similar trick.

So, given that your LDAP servers are OK then I'm quite confident that midPoint can do this.


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On 10/06/2016 11:10 AM, Patrick Brunmayr wrote:

Hello

We have multiple departments in our company each owing its own LDAP Tree with accounts. We want to use midpoint as a global IDM and merge them together
into one big LDAP Tree. So my question is can we sync data from multiple directories into one big directory ? This directory should be used for SSO so bacically
passwords should be synced too!

Thank you; Jay




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