LDAP Authentication
You can configure SonarQube authentication and authorization to an LDAP server (including LDAP Service of Active Directory) by configuring the correct values in $SONARQUBE-HOME/conf/sonar.properties.
The main features are:
- Password checking against the external authentication engine.
- Automatic synchronization of usernames and emails.
- Automatic synchronization of relationships between users and groups (authorization).
- Ability to authenticate against both the external and the internal authentication systems. There is an automatic fallback on SonarQube internal system if the LDAP server is down.
- During the first authentication trial, if the user's password is correct, the SonarQube