How Can I Assign Roles to Users When Importing from LDAP?
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Michael Warren Young
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Issue
- When importing users to Liferay DXP from LDAP, they are not being assigned the roles I want them to have from my LDAP server.
Environment
Resolution
- In Liferay DXP, Users are imported from LDAP by Group
- In Liferay, create a User Group in Liferay with the same name as the LDAP Group the users you want to grant roles to belong to.
- Roles can be assigned to the created User Groups in order to grant roles and permissions to users from the same LDAP Group.
- Example: If you have a group in LDAP called "Admins" and you want to grant them the "Site Administrator" role in Liferay, create a Liferay User Group called "Admins" and grant the "Site Administrator" role to the User Group.
- Users assigned to the "Admins" User Group during the LDAP import will inherit the "Site Administrator" role from the User Group.
- If more control is needed over the specific permissions to assign to User Groups, the setting Create Role per Group on Import can be checked.
- With this setting, each Group imported from LDAP will have a Role created for it and specific permissions can be assigned to each Group using the created Role.
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