Re: How to setup authentication for different user groups using APEX and LDAP
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:04:29 +0100
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You don't say whether you are using OID or not so I'm not sure if this is applicable but what I do with OID and Apex is allow the user to authenticate and then use HTMLDB_LDAP.IS_MEMBER_OF to obtain the group membership. Once you have that it is straightforward to get the application to behave differently for different groups.
Cheers,
Ian
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G'day
The environment is APEX in Oracle 10g (Express initially), and Centos Directory Server 8.1.
One of our Apex developers is trying to use LDAP to authenticate users to his application. The complication here is that there are two distinct user groups. One group is the company staff, whereas the other group can contain students, customers, staff and selected members of the public. All users will have records in the same directory server, although not in the same branch of the directory tree. Group 1 (staff) has "administrator" privileges, that is access to all parts of the application. Group 2 can only log in to fill out specially customised forms.
The method proposed to get about this is to attempt to authenticate the user as a staff member first, then to attempt authentication as a member of group 2 and fail if not succeed. For this, it is proposed to use two RDNs, say ou=ourPeople and ou=otherPeople, and do a search/bind with either of them as the base DN in order.
I am thinking that this is not particularly flexible and perhaps there are better solutions out there. If, for instance, in the future management decides that we need a third group, say ou=theOtherMob, then the authentication code will have to be changed. I have tried to find examples or "best practices" online, but found nothing. If you have thoughts or have come across examples on how to set this up, can you please share them?
Cheers,
Tony
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