Elytron ldap-realm does not support recursive role search --------------------------------------------------------- Key: WFLY-7631 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-7631 Project: WildFly Issue Type: Feature Request Components: Security Reporter: Jan Kalina Assignee: Jan Kalina Priority: Blocker Fix For: 11.0.0.Final Scenario: LDAP can include some roles which are members of other roles. I try to assigned also these "nested roles" to user during authentication/authorization process. In EAP 7.0 (with PicketBox) I am able to set configuration, which allows to assign these roles to user. LdapExtLoginModule with module option {{roleRecursion}} serves for this. It uses int value which determines how many levels should be searched and assigned to user. I am not able to achieve this scenario with Elytron and its ldap-realm. Missing this feature in Elytron can lead to situation when migration from PicketBox to Elytron will not be possible since LDAP structure for role assignment used by legacy solution will not be able to work correctly with Elytron. See example of LDIF for LDAP server: {code} dn: ou=People,dc=jboss,dc=org objectclass: top objectclass: organizationalUnit ou: People dn: uid=jduke,ou=People,dc=jboss,dc=org objectclass: top objectclass: person objectclass: inetOrgPerson uid: jduke cn: Java Duke sn: Duke userPassword: Password1 dn: ou=Roles,dc=jboss,dc=org objectclass: top objectclass: organizationalUnit ou: Roles dn: cn=R1,ou=Roles,dc=jboss,dc=org objectclass: top objectclass: groupOfNames cn: R1 member: uid=jduke,ou=People,dc=jboss,dc=org description: the R1 group dn: cn=R2,ou=Roles,dc=jboss,dc=org objectclass: top objectclass: groupOfNames cn: R2 member: cn=R1,ou=Roles,dc=jboss,dc=org description: the R2 group dn: cn=R3,ou=Roles,dc=jboss,dc=org objectclass: top objectclass: groupOfNames cn: R3 member: cn=R2,ou=Roles,dc=jboss,dc=org description: the R3 group {code} In Elytron I am able to assigned only {{R1}} role to user jduke. Legacy solution is able to use for example {{roleRecursion=1}} which results to assign roles {{R1}} and {{R2}} to user jduke.