umbraco8-LDAP-auth

The purpose of this project is to demonstrate how to integrate LDAP authentication into an Umbraco 8 website

With this solution, the local authentication still works and plays a fallback role. If the system cannot authenticate through LDAP, it will fallback to the classic Umbraco authentication. It is a very simple approach. Follow these steps:

1. First you need an Umbraco 8 project.
2. In /config/umbracoSettings.config set usernameIsEmail to false
3. Create a local user which has the same login and email as a user of your active directory
4. Create a folder App_Start at the root of your project
5. Add the class UmbracoCustomOwinStartup.cs in the App_Start folder (You can find the class in the project example)
6. In your web.config, add the key <add key="ActiveDirectoryDomain" value="YOUR_AD_DOMAIN" /> to the appSettings element. Change YOUR_AD_DOMAIN by your active directory DNS.
7. Eventually, in your web.config, change the key value of owin:appStartup by UmbracoCustomOwinStartup

Example

With the example project you can test this solution.

The local administrator user has the following credentials: User : LDAPAuth Email : LDAPAuth@demo.com Password : LDAPAuthPassword