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October 16, 2015
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Persisting Users to external database

  • October 16, 2015
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I want to persist /home/users to a location outside of the AEM application. I read I could connect AEM to an external database so I assume that's a way to do this. But in that case my entire JCR would be external, and I suspect this might have performance issues.

Hence my question. Would it be possible to only keep user data (password and username) outside of the JCR. I would like to still make use of CUG for protected pages. So in other words, I am looking for a solution that won't disrupt too much any OOB user functionality.

Apologies if this question has been asked before, but I can hardly search the forum at the moment, I get blank pages returned.

Many thanks, K

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Best answer by Ove_Lindström

No, you don't have to persist the whole JCR. Connecting to a database is the same as connecting to a REST service. You just setup a data connection in a Java class, same as you do with any database connection, then read the /home/user info and push it into the database.

Then, if you change the user in the database, you still need to sync the information into /home/users. If you search for SAML integration or LDAP integration, that is basically what they are doing.

 

/Ove

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joerghoh
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joerghohAdobe Employee
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October 16, 2015

Why do you want to persist user data outside of the repository? If you already have an external IdentityManagement system, which offers LDAP connectivity, you can easily attach AEM to it. Or if you already have a SSO solution. But I haven't seen a convincing reason not to have an IDM or SSO, but to place userdata outside of the repository.

Jörg

deepankard86318
deepankard86318
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October 7, 2018

Hi Katrien​

I know it has been 3 years since this question, but were you able to use CUG features of AEM after storing the users outside JCR and authenticating user from external database?  I have a similar requirement, will appreciate if you could provide some information in this direction.

Thanks

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