Active Directory – Grant/Restrict Access to Content

  • erpatton

    (@erpatton)


    9 years, 10 months ago

    Hello WordPress gurus! We have a client who is wanting to be able to restrict/grant access to pages on a WordPress site for certain groups in their Active Directory. Do you know of any plugins that already do this or a combination that can be used as a base to piece together functionality for this? I’ve worked with WordPress a few times before, but I mostly get .NET and Umbraco project requests from clients, so I’m not as familiar with what can be done in WordPress.

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    I don’t see how this can be possible. AD manages a file system. WP pages are not files, they are DB entries. Once could manually mirror users and groups in AD as WP users and roles and thus manage access using the same terms, but this would only be an artifice, any changes in AD cannot propagate to WP.

    There might be some way to script changes to apply to both systems, but I doubt it. I am no MS expert by any means, so don;t take my word for it.

    Thread Starter erpatton

    (@erpatton)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    There are plugins like https://wordpress.org/plugins/auth0/ that integrate AD into WP, and I’m assuming they make AD users act like WP users unless I’m wrong. If that’s the case, could I use those to restrict front-end access by default or with some kind of plugin?

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