Configuring a Read-Write Active Directory User Store¶
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The default User Store
The primary user store that is configured by default in the user-mgt.xml
file is a JDBC user store, which reads/writes into the internal database of the product server. By default, the internal database is H2 for all WSO2 products excluding WSO2 Identity Server.
Note that the RDBMS used in the default configuration can remain as the database used for storing Authorization information.
Follow the given steps to configure an external Active Directory as the primary user store:
- Step 1: Setting up the external AD user store manager
- Step 2: Updating the system administrator
- Step 3: Starting the server
Step 1: Setting up the external AD user store manager¶
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Navigate to
<PRODUCT_HOME>/repository/conf
directory to opendeployment.toml
file and do user_store_properties configurations. Following is the sample read-write active directory user store configurations:[user_store.properties] TenantManager="org.wso2.carbon.user.core.tenant.CommonHybridLDAPTenantManager" ConnectionURL="ldaps://10.100.1.102:639" ConnectionName="CN=admin,CN=Users,DC=WSO2,DC=Com" ConnectionPassword="A1b2c3d4" AnonymousBind="false" UserSearchBase="CN=Users,DC=WSO2,DC=Com" UserEntryObjectClass="user" UserNameAttribute="cn" UserNameSearchFilter="(&(objectClass=user)(cn=?))" UserNameListFilter="(&(objectClass=user)(!(sn=Service)))" ReadGroups="true" WriteGroups="true" GroupSearchBase="CN=Users,DC=WSO2,DC=Com" GroupEntryObjectClass="group" GroupNameAttribute="cn" GroupNameSearchFilter="(&(objectClass=group)(cn=?))" GroupNameListFilter="(objectcategory=group)" MembershipAttribute="member" MemberOfAttribute="memberOf" BackLinksEnabled="true" Referral="follow" UsernameJavaRegEx="[a-zA-Z0-9._\\-|//]{3,30}$" UsernameJavaScriptRegEx="^[\\S]{3,30}$" UsernameJavaRegExViolationErrorMsg="Username pattern policy violated" PasswordJavaRegEx="^[\\S]{5,30}$" PasswordJavaScriptRegEx="^[\\S]{5,30}$" PasswordJavaRegExViolationErrorMsg="Password length should be within 5 to 30 characters" RolenameJavaRegEx="[a-zA-Z0-9._\\-|//]{3,30}$" RolenameJavaScriptRegEx="^[\\S]{3,30}$" SCIMEnabled="false" IsBulkImportSupported="false" EmptyRolesAllowed="true" PasswordHashMethod="PLAIN_TEXT" MultiAttributeSeparator="," isADLDSRole="false" userAccountControl="512" MaxUserNameListLength="100" MaxRoleNameListLength="100" MembershipAttributeRange="1500" kdcEnabled="false" defaultRealmName="WSO2.ORG" UserRolesCacheEnabled="true" ConnectionPoolingEnabled="false" LDAPConnectionTimeout="5000" StartTLSEnabled="false" ConnectionRetryDelay="120000"
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The
class
attribute for an external AD isorg.wso2.carbon.user.core.ldap.ActiveDirectoryUserStoreManager
.[user_store] class="org.wso2.carbon.user.core.ldap.ActiveDirectoryUserStoreManager" type = "active_directory" base_dn = "cn=Users,dc=wso2,dc=org"
Note
Note that these configurations will automatically applied to the user-mgt.xml
file so you do not need to edit it.
Given below is a sample configuration for the external read/write user store in the user-mgt.xml
. You can change the values to match your requirement in deployment.toml
file. For descriptions on each of the properties used in the <PRODUCT_HOME>/repository/conf/deployment.toml
file which are used for configuring the primary user store , see Configuring Read-Write Active Directory User Store and Properties of User Stores.
<UserStoreManager class="org.wso2.carbon.user.core.ldap.ActiveDirectoryUserStoreManager">
<Property name="IsBulkImportSupported">true</Property>
<Property name="MaxUserNameListLength">100</Property>
<Property name="defaultRealmName">WSO2.ORG</Property>
<Property name="isADLDSRole">false</Property>
<Property name="userAccountControl">512</Property>
<Property name="EmptyRolesAllowed">true</Property>
<Property name="MultiAttributeSeparator">,</Property>
<Property name="MembershipAttributeRange">1500</Property>
<Property name="DisplayNameAttribute"></Property>
<Property name="TenantManager">org.wso2.carbon.user.core.tenant.CommonHybridLDAPTenantManager</Property>
<Property name="UserSearchBase">ou=Users,cn=Users,dc=wso2,dc=org</Property>
<Property name="GroupNameSearchFilter">(&(objectClass=groupOfNames)(cn=?))</Property>
<Property name="ConnectionPoolingEnabled">false</Property>
<Property name="StartTLSEnabled">false</Property>
<Property name="UserNameSearchFilter">(&(objectClass=person)(uid=?))</Property>
<Property name="LDAPConnectionTimeout">5000</Property>
<Property name="UserNameAttribute">uid</Property>
<Property name="GroupNameAttribute">cn</Property>
<Property name="UsernameJavaRegEx">[a-zA-Z0-9._\-|//]{3,30}$</Property>
<Property name="WriteGroups">true</Property>
<Property name="AnonymousBind">false</Property>
<Property name="RolenameJavaScriptRegEx">^[\S]{3,30}$</Property>
<Property name="RolenameJavaRegEx">[a-zA-Z0-9._\-|//]{3,30}$</Property>
<Property name="GroupEntryObjectClass">groupOfNames</Property>
<Property name="PasswordJavaRegEx">^[\S]{5,30}$</Property>
<Property name="PasswordHashMethod">PLAIN_TEXT</Property>
<Property name="GroupSearchBase">ou=Groups,cn=Users,dc=wso2,dc=org</Property>
<Property name="ReadGroups">true</Property>
<Property name="ReplaceEscapeCharactersAtUserLogin">true</Property>
<Property name="ConnectionRetryDelay">120000</Property>
<Property name="MembershipAttribute">member</Property>
<Property name="Referral">follow</Property>
<Property name="UserEntryObjectClass">identityPerson</Property>
<Property name="PasswordJavaRegExViolationErrorMsg">Password length should be within 5 to 30 characters</Property>
<Property name="MaxRoleNameListLength">100</Property>
<Property name="PasswordJavaScriptRegEx">^[\S]{5,30}$</Property>
<Property name="BackLinksEnabled">false</Property>
<Property name="UsernameJavaRegExViolationErrorMsg">Username pattern policy violated</Property>
<Property name="UserRolesCacheEnabled">true</Property>
<Property name="GroupNameListFilter">(objectClass=groupOfNames)</Property>
<Property name="SCIMEnabled">false</Property>
<Property name="UserNameListFilter">(objectClass=person)</Property>
<Property name="MemberOfAttribute">memberOf</Property>
<Property name="UsernameJavaScriptRegEx">^[\S]{3,30}$</Property>
<Property name="kdcEnabled">false</Property>
</UserStoreManager>
Note
When working with Active Directory;
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It is best to enable the
GetAllRolesOfUserEnabled
property in theAuthorizationManager
as follows. See the documentation on configuring the Authorization Manager for more information.<AuthorizationManager class="org.wso2.carbon.user.core.authorization.JDBCAuthorizationManager"> <Property name="AdminRoleManagementPermissions">/permission</Property> <Property name="AuthorizationCacheEnabled">true</Property> <Property name="GetAllRolesOfUserEnabled">true</Property> </AuthorizationManager>
Although using the user store manager does not depend on this property, you must consider enabling this if there are any performance issues in your production environment. Enabling this property affects the performance when the user logs in. This depends on the users, roles and permission stats.
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If you are using
ldaps
(secured LDAP) to connect to the Active Directory as shown in the example below, you need to import the certificate of Active Directory to theclient-truststore.jks
of the WSO2 product. For information on how to add certificates to the truststore and how keystores are configured and used in a system, see Using Asymmetric Encryption .ConnectionURL="ldaps://10.100.1.100:636"
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You also need to enable connection pooling for LDAPS connections at the time of starting your server, which will enhance server performance.
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For Active Directory, you can use
Referral="follow"
to enable referrals within the user store. The AD user store may be partitioned into multiple domains. However, according to the use store configurations in thedeployment.toml
file, we are only connecting to one of the domains. Therefore, when a request for an object is received to the user store, theReferral="follow"
property ensures that all the domains in the directory will be searched to locate the requested object. -
Set the attribute to use as the username, typically either
cn
oruid
for LDAP. Ideally,UserNameAttribute
andUserNameSearchFilter
should refer to the same attribute. If you are not sure what attribute is available in your user store, check with your LDAP/Active Directory administrator.UserNameAttribute="cn" UserNameSearchFilter="(&(objectClass=user)(cn=?))"
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In WSO2 products based on Carbon 4.5.x, you can set the
LDAPConnectionTimeout
property: If the connection to the LDAP is inactive for the length of time (in milliseconds) specified by this property, the connection will be terminated. -
Set the
ReadGroups
property to 'true', if it should be allowed to read roles from this user store. When this property is 'true', you must also specify values for theGroupSearchBase
,GroupNameSearchFilter
andGroupNameAttribute
properties. If theReadGroups
property is set to 'false', only Users can be read from the user store. You can set the configuration to read roles from the user store by reading the user/role mapping based on a membership (user list) or back link attribute as shown below. To read the user/role mapping based on a membership (This is used by theApacheDirectory
server andOpenLDAP)
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Enable the
ReadGroups
property.ReadGroups="true"
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Set the
GroupSearchBase
property to the directory name where the Roles are stored. That is, the roles you create using the management console of your product will be stored in this directory location. Also, when LDAP searches for users, it will start from this location of the directory. For example:GroupSearchBase="ou=Groups,cn=Users,dc=wso2,dc=org"
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Set the GroupNameSearchFilter and GroupNameAttributes. For example:
GroupNameSearchFilter="(&(objectClass=groupOfNames)(cn=?))" GroupNameAttribute="cn"
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Set the
MembershipAttribute
property as shown below:MembershipAttribute="member"
To read roles based on a backlink attribute, use the following code snipet instead of the above:
ReadGroups="false" GroupSearchBase="ou=system" GroupNameSearchFilter="(objectClass=groupOfNames)" GroupNameAttribute="cn" MembershipAttribute="member" BackLinksEnabled="true" MembershipOfAttribute="memberOf"
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Step 2: Updating the system administrator¶
The admin user is the super tenant that will be able to manage all other users, roles and permissions in the system by using the management console of the product. Therefore, the user that should have admin permissions is required to be stored in the user store when you start the system for the first time. Since the Active Directory user store can be written to, you have the option of creating a new admin user in the user store when you start the system for the first time. Alternatively, you can also use a user ID that already exists in the user store. For more information on setting up the system administrator and the authorization manager.
- These two alternative configurations can be done as explained below.
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Find a valid user that already resides in the user store. For example, say a valid username is AdminSOA. Update the
[super_admin]
section of your configuration as shown below. You do not have to update the password element as it is already set in the user store.[super_admin] username = "AdminSOA" admin_role = "admin" create_admin_account = false
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If the user store can be written to, you can add the super tenant user to the user store. Therefore, create_admin_account should be set to true as shown below.
[super_admin] username = "admin" admin_role = "admin" create_admin_account = true
Step 3: Starting the server¶
Start your server and try to log in as the admin user you specified.
Configuring Read-Write Active Directory User Store¶
Following are the minimum configurations that are needed to be provided to configure Read-write Active Directory user store manager.
Configuration Name | Display Name | Description |
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type | User Store Type | Type of the user store manager that we are using. For Read-only LDAP user store manager this value should be active_directory. |
base_dn | User Search Base | DN of the context or object under which the user entries are stored in the user store. When the user store searches for users, it will start from this location of the directory Sample values: ou=Users,dc=wso2,dc=org |
Properties used in Read-Write Active Directory User Store¶
The following table lists the properties used in Read-write Active Directory and their descriptions:
Any of the following properties can be configured for the PRIMARY
user store by adding them as follows to <API-M_HOME>/repository/conf/deployment.toml
.
Property Id | Primary User Store Property | Secondary User Store Property | Description |
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UserEntryObjectClass | user_entry_object_class | User Entry Object Class | Object class used to construct user entries. Default: user |
UserNameAttribute | user_name_attribute | Username Attribute | The attribute used for uniquely identifying a user entry. Users can be authenticated using their email address, UID, etc. The name of the attribute is considered as the username.
Default: cn |
UserNameSearchFilter | user_name_search_filter | User Search Filter | Filtering criteria used to search for a particular user entry. Default : (&(objectClass=user)(cn=?)) |
UserNameListFilter | user_name_list_filter | User List Filter | Filtering criteria for searching user entries in the user store. This query or filter is used when doing search operations on users with different search attributes. Default: (&(objectClass=user)(!(sn=Service))) In this case, the search operation only provides the objects created from the person object class. |
UserDNPattern | user_dn_pattern | User DN Pattern | The pattern for the user's DN, which can be defined to improve the search. When there are many user entries in the LDAP user store, defining a UserDNPattern provides more impact on performances as the LDAP does not have to travel through the entire tree to find users.
Sample values: uid={0},ou=Users,dc=wso2,dc=org |
DisplayNameAttribute | display_name_attribute | Display name attribute | This is an optional property. The Display Name Attribute is the name by which users will be listed when you list users in the management console.
Default: blank |
ReadGroups | read_groups | Read Groups | When WriteGroups is set to false, this Indicates whether groups should be read from the user store. If this is disabled by setting it to false, none of the groups in the user store can be read, and the following group configurations are NOT mandatory: GroupSearchBase, GroupNameListFilter, or GroupNameAttribute. Default: true
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WriteGroups | write_groups | Write Groups | Indicates whether groups should be write to the user store. Default: true
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GroupSearchBase | group_search_base | Group Search Base | DN of the context or object under which the group entries are stored in the user store. When the user store searches for groups, it will start from this location of the directory.
Default: ou=Groups,cn=Users,dc=wso2,dc=org |
GroupEntryObjectClass | group_entry_object_class | Group Entry Object Class | Object class used to construct group entries. Default: groupOfNames |
GroupNameAttribute | group_name_attribute | Group Name Attribute | Attribute used for uniquely identifying a group entry. This attribute is to be treated as the group name.
Default: cn |
GroupNameSearchFilter | group_name_search_filter | Group Search Filter | Filtering criteria used to search for a particular group entry.
Default: (&(objectClass=groupOfNames)(cn=?)) |
GroupNameListFilter | group_name_list_filter | Group List Filter | Filtering criteria for searching group entries in the user store. This query or filter is used when doing search operations on groups with different search attributes.
Default: (objectClass=groupOfNames) In this case, the search operation only provides the objects created from the groupOfName object class. |
RoleDNPattern | role_dn_pattern | Role DN Pattern | The pattern for the group's DN, which can be defined to improve the search. When there are many group entries in the LDAP user store, defining a RoleDNPattern provides more impact on performances as the LDAP does not have to traverse through the entire tree to find group.
Sample values: cn={0},ou=Groups,dc=wso2,dc=org |
MembershipAttribute | membership_attribute | Membership Attribute | Defines the attribute that contains the distinguished names (DN) of user objects that are in a group.
Default: member |
MemberOfAttribute | member_of_attribute | Member Of Attribute | Define the attribute that contains the distinguished names (DN ) of group objects that user is assigned to. Default: memberOf |
BackLinksEnabled | back_links_enabled | Enable Back Links | Defines whether the back link support is enabled. If you are using MemberOfAttribute attributes this should be set to 'true'.
Default : false |
UsernameJavaRegEx | username_java_regex | Username RegEx (Java) | The regular expression used by the back-end components for username validation. By default, strings with non-empty characters have a length of 3 to 30 allowed. You can provide ranges of alphabets, numbers and also ranges of ASCII values in the RegEx properties. Default: [a-zA-Z0-9._\-|//]{3,30}$ |
UsernameJava ScriptRegEx |
username_java_ script_regex |
Username RegEx (JavaScript) | The regular expression used by the front-end components for username validation. Default: ^[\S]{3,30}$ |
UsernameJavaReg ExViolationErrorMsg |
username_java_reg_ ex_violation_error_msg |
Username RegEx Violation Error Message | Error message when the Username is not matched with UsernameJavaRegEx Default: Username pattern policy violated |
PasswordJavaRegEx | password_java_regex | Password RegEx (Java) | The regular expression used by the back-end components for password validation. By default, strings with non-empty characters have a length of 5 to 30 allowed. You can provide ranges of alphabets, numbers and also ranges of ASCII values in the RegEx properties. Default: ^[\S]{5,30}$ |
PasswordJava ScriptRegEx |
password_java_ script_regex |
Password RegEx (JavaScript) | The regular expression used by the front-end components for password validation. Default: ^[\S]{5,30}$ |
PasswordJavaReg ExViolationErrorMsg |
password_java_reg ex_violation_error_msg |
Password RegEx Violation Error Message | Error message when the Password is not matched with passwordJavaRegEx Default: Password length should be within 5 to 30 characters |
RolenameJavaRegEx | rolename_java_regex | Role Name RegEx (Java) | The regular expression used by the back-end components for role name validation. By default, strings with non-empty characters have a length of 3 to 30 allowed. You can provide ranges of alphabets, numbers and also ranges of ASCII values in the RegEx properties. Default: [a-zA-Z0-9._\-|//]{3,30}$ |
SCIMEnabled | scim_enabled | Enable SCIM | This is to configure whether user store is supported for SCIM provisioning. Possible values: True : User store support for SCIM provisioning. False: User does not store support for SCIM provisioning. Default: false |
PasswordHashMethod | password_hash_method | Password Hashing Algorithm | Specifies the Password Hashing Algorithm used the hash the password before storing in the user store. Possible values: SHA - Uses SHA digest method. SHA-1, SHA-256 MD5 - Uses MD 5 digest method. PLAIN_TEXT - Plain text passwords.(Default) If you just configure as SHA, It is considered as SHA-1, It is always better to configure algorithm with higher bit value as digest bit size would be increased. |
MultiAttributeSeparator | multi_attribute_separator | Multiple Attribute Separator | This property is used to define a character to separate multiple attributes. This ensures that it will not appear as part of a claim value. Normally “,” is used to separate multiple attributes, but you can define ",,," or "..." or a similar character sequence Default: “,” |
MaxUserName ListLength |
max_user_name_ list_length |
Maximum User List Length | Controls the number of users listed in the user store of a WSO2 product. This is useful when you have a large number of users and don't want to list them all. Setting this property to 0 displays all users. Default: 100 In some user stores, there are policies to limit the number of records that can be returned from the query. Setting the value 0 it will list the maximum results returned by the user store. If you need to increase that you need to set it in the user store level. Eg : Active directory has the MaxPageSize property with the default value 1000. |
MaxRoleName ListLength |
max_role_name_ list_length |
Maximum Role List Length | Controls the number of roles listed in the user store of a WSO2 product. This is useful when you have a large number of roles and don't want to list them all. Setting this property to 0 displays all roles. Default: 100 In some user stores, there are policies to limit the number of records that can be returned from the query, Setting the value 0 it will list the maximum results returned by the user store. If you need to increase that you need to set it n the user store level. Eg: Active directory has the MaxPageSize property with the default value 1000. |
kdcEnabled | kdc_enabled | Enable KDC | If your user store is capable of acting as a Kerberos, Key Distribution Center (KDC) and if you like to enable it, set this property to true. Default: false |
UserRoles CacheEnabled |
user_roles_ cache_enabled |
Enable User Role Cache | This is to indicate whether to cache the role list of a user. Default: true Possible values: false: Set it to false if the user roles are changed by external means and those changes should be instantly reflected in the Carbon instance. Default: true |
Connection PoolingEnabled |
connection_ pooling_enabled |
Enable LDAP Connection Pooling | Define whether LDAP connection pooling is enabled Possible values: True: Enable connection pooling. Enabling it will improve the performance False: Disable connection pooling Default: false |
LDAPConnectionT timeout |
ldap_connection _timeout |
LDAP Connection Timeout | Timeout in making the initial LDAP connection. This is configured in milliseconds. Default: 5000 |
ReadTimeout | read_timeout | LDAP Read Timeout | The value of this property is the read timeout in milliseconds for LDAP operations. If the LDAP provider cannot get a LDAP response within that period, it aborts the read attempt. The integer should be greater than zero. An integer less than or equal to zero means no read timeout is specified which is equivalent to waiting for the response infinitely until it is received.
Default: not configured |
Membership AttributeRange |
membership_ attribute_range |
Membership Attribute Range | This is to define the maximum users of role returned by the LDAP/AD user store. This does not depend on the max page size of the user store.
Default: 1500 |
RetryAttempts | retry_attempts | Retry Attempts | Retry the authentication request if a timeout happened
Default: not configured |