LDAP workaround

Camunda 7 Topics Discussion & Questions
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Hello all,

I have worked on the LDAP connection which is been integrated with camunda (7.4) and its working fine.

I wanted to know, if the LDAP server goes down.

  1. What is the work around to access the camunda details?
  2. How do users login to camunda? (When LDAP is connected user table group table are blank in the database.)

How to bypass LDAP by an external user to access camunda.

Thanks and Regards
Harshal Temkar

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Hi @Harshal_Temkar,

usually, if you decided to use the LDAP, then you should take care that it is always available by using LDAP cluster, for example.
If you are using Camunda without LDAP, then you would need to create the users and groups in Camunda tables via Admin webapp or via REST API.

But I can’t imagine the easy way to switch between these two strategies on regular basis. For this you would need to:

  1. Synchronize your data between LDAP and Camunda tables
  2. Restart Camunda Engine with new configuration for identity management whenever LDAP is down, or customize the Identity Provider in a way, that it first checks the LDAP, and if not available, checks the database. The latter can be rather tricky.