goauthentik / goauthentik/authentik
Authenticate against LDAP on demand without syncing the whole directory
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Description
## What
authenticate against a large LDAP/AD on demand without syncing/storing the entire directory (and password hashes) locally.
## Want
- Authenticate against a large LDAP/AD on demand without syncing/storing the entire directory (and password hashes) locally
## Ideas this came from
- [#5764 Fetch LDAP user on demand and without storing password hashes](https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/issues/5764) — Yes, we would like to use authentic with a pretty huge LDAP backend. We do not want to sync that entire LDAP into authentic for various reasons. Aside from that
- [#8080 Is LDAP federation without user sync possible?](https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/issues/8080) — Describe your question/ I'm trying to setup a LDAP federation with large scale LDAP (AD) server consists of 10k+ users accounts. I've setup a federation but cou
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reviewing related issues #5764 and #8080, then trace the existing LDAP/AD authentication flow. Done means authenticating users on demand against a large directory without synchronizing the full directory or storing password hashes locally.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- authentication
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100