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Commit 88eabae5 by Achilleas Pipinellis Committed by James Lopez

Merge branch 'document-auto_link_ldap_user' into 'master'

Document the `auto_link_ldap_user` setting See merge request !8568
parent 038a00a2
......@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ that are in common for all providers that we need to consider.
- `allow_single_sign_on` allows you to specify the providers you want to allow to
automatically create an account. It defaults to `false`. If `false` users must
be created manually or they will not be able to sign in via OmniAuth.
- `auto_link_ldap_user` can be used if you have [LDAP / ActiveDirectory](ldap.md)
integration enabled. It defaults to false. When enabled, users automatically
created through OmniAuth will be linked to their LDAP entry as well.
- `block_auto_created_users` defaults to `true`. If `true` auto created users will
be blocked by default and will have to be unblocked by an administrator before
they are able to sign in.
......@@ -52,6 +55,10 @@ SAML, Shibboleth, Crowd or Google, or set it to `false` otherwise any user on
the Internet will be able to successfully sign in to your GitLab without
administrative approval.
>**Note:**
`auto_link_ldap_user` requires the `uid` of the user to be the same in both LDAP
and the OmniAuth provider.
To change these settings:
* **For omnibus package**
......@@ -72,6 +79,7 @@ To change these settings:
# using an array, e.g. ["saml", "twitter"], or as true/false to allow all providers or none.
# User accounts will be created automatically when authentication was successful.
gitlab_rails['omniauth_allow_single_sign_on'] = ['saml', 'twitter']
gitlab_rails['omniauth_auto_link_ldap_user'] = true
gitlab_rails['omniauth_block_auto_created_users'] = true
```
......@@ -99,6 +107,8 @@ To change these settings:
# User accounts will be created automatically when authentication was successful.
allow_single_sign_on: ["saml", "twitter"]
auto_link_ldap_user: true
# Locks down those users until they have been cleared by the admin (default: true).
block_auto_created_users: true
```
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