[openstack-dev] Using AD for keystone authentication only

Avi L aviostack at gmail.com
Wed Nov 13 21:08:40 UTC 2013


Oh ok so in this case how does the Active Directory user gets a id , and
how do you map the user to a role? Is there any example you can point me
to?


On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Dolph Mathews <dolph.mathews at gmail.com>wrote:

> Yes, that's the preferred approach in Havana: Users and Groups via LDAP,
> and everything else via SQL.
>
>
> On Wednesday, November 13, 2013, Avi L wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I understand that the LDAP provider in keystone can be used for
>> authenticating a user (i.e validate username and password) , and it also
>> authorize it against roles and tenant. However this requires AD schema
>> modification. Is it possible to use AD only for authentication and then use
>> keystone's native database for roles and tenant lookup? The advantage is
>> that then we don't need to touch the enterprise AD installation.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Al
>>
>
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