[ome-devel] AD authentication

[Mark Woodbridge]

You should be able to implement your own Password Provider[1] that 
invokes adinfo from Java. We subclass JdbcPasswordProvider, falling back 
to the database for external users who aren't in our institutional 
directory.

Mark.

[1] 
http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/omero4/developers/Server/PasswordProvider.html


On 08/08/13 14:59, Yanling Liu wrote:
> Dear OME developers,
>
> I'd like to ask if there is plan to support AD authentication on linux
> platform through Centrify (http://www.centrify.com/) tool. Some of our
> existing system utilize a small script to verify user credential against
> AD server:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> adinfo --user $1 --password $2 --auth > /dev/null
> if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
>    exit 1
> else
>    echo "OK"
>    exit 0
> fi
>
>
> adinfo is a command line tool provided by Centrify.
>
> Would it be possible to added this feature to OMERO? I know OMERO
> support LDAP but LDAP is not available in our organization.
>
> Thanks,
> Yanling
>
>
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