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Status Future consideration
Workspace SevOne
Categories Configuration and Administration
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 28, 2025

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Add the ability to use custom LDAP libraries or modify LDAP search parameters

When it comes to security, a robust authentication setup is key. In this regard, the way is implemented in production environments may lead to use non-standard settings or mixing different approaches to suit operation's needs. The request is to either add the ability to modify/add the LDAP libraries or expand the current LDAP search parameters for flexibility or security requirements.

The new Read-only filesystem introduced on the NMS +7.0 releases makes impossible to change/modify the LDAP libraries SevOne uses to implement the missing features. This could be another possible setting under the supported `/config` directory.

Idea priority Urgent
  • Admin
    Ryan Wilson
    Aug 7, 2025

    Kevin, without the wildcard does the LDAP search timeout, or does it simply not display all the groups they need to search through?

    1 reply
  • Guest
    Aug 7, 2025

    I spoke with our client - they have a LDAP host with a very large number of groups. They consider this a blocker to their future NMS 7 upgrade as Ldap.inc is immutable.

    They are using a wildcard in the Common Name search on the LDAP request like below, at line 917 in Ldap.inc, in the function getGroups(), one of NMS's LDAP libraries. Without making this modification their LDAP integration cannot display groups as their org has a very large amount of them. Although I do not know if they require a wildcard, they do use one e.g FOO*BAR as below:

    917             $searchText='SEVONE*UAT';
918             $results = $ldapServer->search( "(&".$typeSearch."(cn=".$searchText."))", array("cn"), $options );

     

    But this is definitely a hack as it overwrites a function parameter $searchText with a hardcoded string, that happens to include a wildcard. I think our client wants to have a clean way to set this variable, if possible.

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  • Admin
    Ryan Wilson
    Jul 30, 2025

    Matias, what is the impact or symptoms of not being able able to use a wildcard?

    Is the wildcard an absolute requirement, or would being able to specify a directory other or than the parent LDAP directory also suit your needs?

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