External ldap mapping & portal 6.2

Hello
To my knowledge external ldap mapping is not supported in portal 6.0 & portal 6.1, my question is it implemented in portal 6.2 ?! , If not is there any workaround that can solve this issue and considered as a professtional solution !

Yes, you can do authentication against your existing
external LDAP and dynamicaly create user profiles
in your local LDAP(which can be physically on a different box)
The "professtional name" for this configuration is:
LDAP "profile server" with "external authentication" LDAP.
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Hi,
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Siva kancheti wrote:
Hi,
I am using external LDAP for authentication. In the Ext. LDAP I am using
there is an attribute named title in every user cn. I want to use this
attribute for portal to decide which role the user belongs to. I mapped
iwtUser-role to title in Ext. LDAP configuration. When I go to console I
see user(s) under the roles defined in title attribute(in Ext. LDAP).
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who have the title as that role (even though when I go to that user(s),
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iwtUser-role attribute in profile LDAP using a LDAP browser it shows
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iwtUser-role to an attribute in Ext. LDAP is right thing in the first
place (I am doing this because the Ext. LDAP is already populated, I
have no roles in that, all users are at same level and I have permission
to change title attribute only in Ext. LDAP).
Thanks,
Siva Kancheti.

External LDAP + Roles in portal

Folks,
I use weblogic 8.1 portal.
Can we use an external LDAP for storing portal roles? If so, what is supported,
recommended, etc. Does BEA have a recommendation/document on how to support an
environment with multiple domains that share a common LDAP so that we don’t have
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- Lara

Lara,
The WLS SSPI (plug-in provider architecture) allows you to add additional
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still required for WLP. Also, in a WLS domain/cluster each managed server
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server.
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"Lara Man" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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Folks,
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Usage of external LDAP server with Portal

Hi All,
We are in a situation to use external LDAP server with WLP 8.1. These are the
constraints we have to deal with:
1. Only read is allowed from this LDAP server.
2. This would be used for authentication purpose
If thats the case, how can we use Visitor Entitlements/Delegated Admin and Group
creation using Portal Admin tool since this will write to the configured LDAP
server.
Can somebody answer my question:
1. Can we use external LDAP server - just for authetication (I know this is possible
by using JAAS LoginModule, but I just want to get confirmed on this ) and
2. Use default and embedded LDAP server for all others like Group/Visitor Entitlements/DAs.
Any relevant pointers are also welcome.
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Thanks for th ereply. Some of your answers are not clear. Can you pls eloborate
on this?? Pls see my comments below.
"Johnson" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
Phil,
Can I use embedded LDAP for production?
Thanks
Lawrence
"Phil Griffin" <BEA> wrote:
"Prashanth " <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]..
Hi All,
We are in a situation to use external LDAP server with WLP 8.1. Theseare
the
constraints we have to deal with:
1. Only read is allowed from this LDAP server.
2. This would be used for authentication purpose
If thats the case, how can we use Visitor Entitlements/Delegated Adminand
Group
creation using Portal Admin tool since this will write to the configuredLDAP
server.
Can somebody answer my question:
1. Can we use external LDAP server - just for authetication (I knowthis
is possible
by using JAAS LoginModule, but I just want to get confirmed on this) and
>
You can add the external LDAP server just for authentication, but in
versions through
8.1 SP2 WLP will want to verify the user exists (via the UserReaderMBean)
during
the login process (this check has been removed in SP3). A work around
is to
duplicate
the user in a provider that does impl UserReaderMBean.
Prashanth : You mean to say we have to duplicate the User in embedded LDAP server
also??
>>
2. Use default and embedded LDAP server for all others like Group/VisitorEntitlements/DAs.
>
Yes, the default/embedded LDAP can still be used for DA/visitor
entitlements. In the current
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authentication provider
while forming entitlements. In SP3, all configured providers are
listed/usable by the tools.Prashanth : How can we configure Portal Admin tool to use authentication provider
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>>
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To your group and user entries in the external LDAP add the follwing attribute:apple-generateduuid gets the value taken from the output of "uuidgen"
Feel lucky
And there ist ist; now you are able to use The accounts taken from an external LDAP.

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Wilson.

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server to an external LDAP server. I know you can install an external LDAP
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Hi.
Is it possible to use external LDAP server for my UCM server without using external LDAP server for my admin server?
That is I have a domain with admin server and UCM server.
My admin server doesn't have external LDAP.
So is it possible to use external LDAP server for my UCM server in such situation?
And if it is possible, could you give me some information about it?
(sorry for my english)

First of all, thank you for links.
But I have a problem: I configured my own LDAP provider and I can see that 'Connection State' is good (5 out of 5 connections are good), but I can not log in into UCM with users in my LDAP (Invalid Credentials. Please try entering your user name and password again.).
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Provider Class:      intradoc.provider.LdapUserProvider
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"dc=example,dc=com"
_____"ou=groups,dc=example,dc=com"
__________"cn=Administrators,ou=groups,dc=example,dc=com"
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Could you show me my mistake?
Edited by: Michael Baygeldin on Dec 17, 2012 5:34 AM

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<ldap role> , admin
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Hi,
Refer this link and SAP Note
[SAP GUI for HTML|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/47/4b0902d84818c9e10000000a114a6b/frameset.htm]
SNote: 517484
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