New Features of LINSTOR Release – July 2019
The Newest LINSTOR® release (July 2019) came with a bunch of new features, and one that is really worth highlighting:
The developers of LINSTOR, the storage management tool for all things Linux, announced that the latest release comes with authentication for LDAP. Software-defined storage consumers were demanding privilege authentication, so we set this as a priority in July.
With support for basic LDAP authentication, you can configure an LDAP server and a search_filter to allow only members of a certain group access to LINSTOR. To accomplish this, here’s a sample configuration entry
 [ldap]
  enabled = true
  uri = "ldaps://ldap.example.com"
  dn = "uid={user},ou=users,o=ha,dc=example"
  search_base = "dc=example"
  search_filter =
"(&(uid={user})(memberof=cn=linstor,ou=services,o=ha,dc=example))"
```
The `{user}` template variable will be replaced with the login user.
Please note that LINSTOR must be configured with HTTPS in order to configure LDAP authentication.Â
Now you can securely manage privileges of your storage clusters, so the antics of those pesky interns don’t keep you awake at night.