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Group membership control with IBM Security Directory Server.

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Description

Definition of a specific LDAP group for authenticating on Piwik using the LDAP plugin does not seem to work with IBM Security Directory Server (formerly known as IBM Tivoli Directory Server).

Indeed, as far as I know, in this LDAP server there is:
- no native "memberOf" attribute defined at the user level (on contrary to what exists in MS Active Directory, for instance)
- no overlay mechanism allowing to automatically provision such an attribute each time a user is added/removed to/from a group (on contrary to what is possible with OpenLDAP, for instance)
- a special "ibm-allGroups" user attribute which is computed dynamically (considering static, dynamic and nested groups) but this attribute CANNOT be used in an LDAP search filter

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Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are identified in the issue. First inspect the LDAP plugin's existing group-authentication handling and clarify the intended IBM Security Directory Server behavior and acceptance criteria; done means group-based authentication works with that server without relying on unsupported attributes.

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Assessment

Tech stack
php
Domain
authentication
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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