From Ldap to Keycloak

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Hello guys,
we have a production enviroment currently authenticating with the company ldap, during the installation we left the UUID value on default, so there is currently a mapping in the db between our ldap cn and the nextcloud UUID which is used as username.

Since we are migrating all the company authentications to Keycloak we installed the oicd plugin for nextcloud but in this case the cn is used by default as username and so if someone tries to log in through keycloak he results as a new user even if he is not.

What is the easiest and least invasive way to do this migration without losing all the users data?

Thanks

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Hello Lorenz,

Did you find a way to migrate your users to Oidc ?
Are you using SocialLogin ?

Thanks in advance !
Michel, having the same kind of migration to Keycloak problem

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Dear All,
Any luck on this please ?

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Hi Team,

I am also having the same issues , can anyone please help?

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in Keycloak, you will want to create a mapper for the client property sub and use username for the value. Else a cryptic number will appear.

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I had the same trouble with an existing nextcloud instance linked to LDAP an implementation of Keyloack with Social Login.

First as @joergschulz stated you need to be sure that you have the sub attribute in the data sent in the JWT token. I mapped it to the LDAP_ID user attribute populated by the Ldap in Keycloak

Then I modified the Social Login code for my needs, actually you can implement a specific behaviour in the UID computation and it is easier than creating a new mapper for KC.

You add your changes in the ProviderService.php class line 462
Before:

$uid = $provider.'-'.$profileId;

after:

if($provider === "MyProviderName") {
            $uid = strtoupper($profileId);
        }else{
            $uid = $provider.'-'.$profileId;
        }

ProviderName is the one your set in the Social Login, that way you avoid the prefix and set to upper case the $profileId that should be LDAP_ID

Then everything works as expected :slight_smile:

Hope it would help someone in the keycloak nextcloud ldap journey

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you should not need to change the code to use keycloak. Just a simple usermappen in keycloak itself so it send the uuid correctly as username.

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in my case the nextcloud instance has already users coming from the Ldap and each of them have the LDAP_ID as UUID

Keycloak creates it own UUID for each user it imports from the same ldap

Social Plugin prefix the profileId with the provider name which prevents it from matching the same user and creates double entries if you let it.

This being said, I’m not saying it’s the best one but nonetheless it works for us.