Hi Nick,
Can you give some instructions on how you got SAML working I am struggling with 
it right now.

-Bryce

From: Nick Couchman <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 7, 2022 10:27 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Guac does not connect to LDAP to pull RDP conn details after SAML 
auth succeeds

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On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 1:18 PM Sathija Pavuluri 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
We have Guacamole configured to use SAML to initially authenticate users and 
subsequently use LDAP to look up the user and retrieve RDP connection 
properties.

When using this setup, user is successfully authenticated against SAML but Guac 
makes no attempt to connect to LDAP to look the user up.
So using SAML auth, do connection details have to come from a DB alone? Is LDAP 
not supported?


You are correct, after a successful SAML authentication, there will be no 
attempt to connect to LDAP. This is because the LDAP module is designed 
specifically to use the credentials of the user who is logging in to query the 
LDAP tree. Since 1) authentication has already succeeded, and 2) with SAML 
authentication there is no password to send to the LDAP server, the module will 
not attempt to authenticate the user.

If you're storing connection information in LDAP then you should just use LDAP 
to authenticate and not try to stack SAML and LDAP.

-Nick


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