Roles and Authentication

  • Hi there

    I have a situation whereby I have 5 WP user roles, and only 3 of those need to be authenticated against the ActiveDir. Any of the unmapped roles, after a 2 or 3 times logging in successfully, begin to fail in the login process, presumably because the system is now trying to authenticate them against the ActiveDir. To test this, I excluded a user of an unmapped role who had had log-in troubles under the configuration, and then they were able to log in successfully.

    I should note that currently we are only synching one-way, from the ActiveDir to WP for the mapped roles. Would this situation be overcome if two-way synching is enabled?

    So the natural next question is there a way to exclude whole roles from authenticating?

    Many thanks

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  • Thread Starter trevolutionary

    (@jkdsouljah)

    If I’m understanding correctly, leaving the “Authorize by Group” checkbox under the Permissions tab unchecked should allow for the unmapped/non-ActiveDir WordPress users to still login? Yet even with this unchecked, that does not seem to be the case.

    Thread Starter trevolutionary

    (@jkdsouljah)

    Update: I’ve isolated the problem to being related to the Brute Force function. It appears to be counting the number of logins, both successful and unsuccessful, and locking people out accordingly. When I raised the setting for the “Maximum Number of Failed Logins” to something like 50, I no longer had the problem. Similarly when I disabled the brute force option by setting it to 0. I know that every login attempt for this particular test user was successful, so the function is counting and including successful login attempts as well, not just the failed attempts.

    Hey trevolutionary

    Thank your for reporting your issue. I will look into this problem today and report back to you as soon as possible.
    Please post your log containing the login attempts you are describing. (Activate logging in the configuration)

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