<p dir="ltr">Hello FreeIPA List :-)</p>
<p dir="ltr">For protecting a web application, we are going to use a Web Application Firewall (SES from USP). This WAF appliance needs to have a user “database”. And for that, we would like to use FreeIPA 4.2 on RHEL 7.2.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The WAF can access external authentication “adapters” over various methods. Among them would be SOAP or LDAP. But not Kerberos... We're fixed on using this particular appliance.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Is it possible to use FreeIPA as an authentication source over LDAP?</p>
<p dir="ltr">It would be so, that users would have an account in IPA. And on the WAF, there'd be a login form (or HTTP basic auth), where the user would enter username and password (and maybe there might even be 2FA, like SMS text or Google Authenticator or such - but for now, that would be out of scope). </p>
<p dir="ltr">The WAF would then send username and password to FreeIPA (using LDAP) and would need to get back, whether the combination was good or not. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Is that scenario doable with FreeIPA and LDAP? Would anyone maybe even know of some good howtos or links? Any gotchas, that we'd need to be aware of? </p>
<p dir="ltr">Thanks a lot and „Viele Grüße” 😃</p>
<p dir="ltr">Alexander Skwar <br>
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