[#JM-806] Add support for nested groups from LDAP

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Add support for nested groups from LDAP

Created: 08/16/06 09:44 PM Updated: 03/04/09 05:54 PM

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Core

Affects Version/s:

3.0.1

Fix Version/s:

3.x

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Support Plan Customer Issue:	No
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A few LDAP servers such as AD support group nesting. It would be handy to support this in Wildfire, as it could make shared group handling for larger organizations much easier.

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Jefferson Cowart added a comment - 02/08/08 05:10 AM

I would like to see support for this for both users and roster groups. While I couldn't find any code that implemented nested LDAP group support in java, here is an implementation in PHP: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LDAP_Authentication. (Look specifically at the searchNestedGroups function.) That algorithm should be portable to Java fairly easily.

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Ryan Suarez added a comment - 03/04/09 05:54 PM

Seems like a required feature for large scale installs, to group users to reflect organization:
Org->IT->developers->user1
Org->IT->helpdesk->user2
Org->Marketing->user3
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