Switch from AD LDAP authentication to local authentication keeping current users and history

[pauldavidmena]

Greetings from Cape Cod!

I have edited the authentication.chain variable in alfresco-global.properties to eliminate references to LDAP:

authentication.chain=alfrescoNtlm1:alfrescoNtlm

I am running Alfresco Content Services v4.2.6. After restarting alfresco, I was able to log in as "admin" and create a new user. Now the big task is to convert all of the LDAP users to local users while keeping the existing data and history. Is there a doc or a tutorial describing how this is done? When I search for a user under the "Manage System Users" section of the Administration Console, I can see their "Person Properties" and "User Properties", but I'm unable to change their password.

Thank you in advance!

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@cristinamr wrote:

@adautofernandesyou have your answer on @afaust' post:

Theoretically, you should be able to deactivate/remove the LDAP-AD configuration 
(simplest way: remove it from authentication.chain property in alfresco-global.properties) 
and after a restart should be allowed to set new passwords for these users in the Share UI.

Don't go directly into the database. Go though alfresco-global.properties and keep only ntlm authenticator on that line.

Cheers,

Cristina.

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[ryanmorgan]

Did you find a way to do this? I am on Alfresco 7.2 and having the same issue.

[pauldavidmena]

We never did make the switch, so we're continuing to authenticate to LDAP. Ultimately we will probably migrate to the Cloud version of Alfresco, but there's no timeframe as far as I know.

[odtorres]

//ContextLoader = Packages.org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader,
//ContextLoader.getCurrentWebApplicationContext().getBean(beanName, classType)
var authService = C.getBean('authenticationService', org.alfresco.service.cmr.security.MutableAuthenticationService);

var password = new String("pass");
var user = "user";

var ch = []
for (var i = 0; i < password.length; i++) {
     ch[i] = password.charAt(i);
}

if(authService.isAuthenticationMutable(user)){
	authService.setAuthentication(user,ch);
}else{
	authService.createAuthentication(user,ch);
}