0013030: Allow for multiple authentication mechanisms

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update
0013030	mantisbt	security	public	2011-05-25 10:27	2026-09-28 09:14

Reporter	Bascy	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	feature	Reproducibility	N/A
Status	acknowledged	Resolution	open
Product Version	1.2.5

Summary	0013030: Allow for multiple authentication mechanisms
Description	We would like to use multiple authentication mechanism, using LDAP for our local users inside our own domain, and using MD5 for a few explicit external users. $g_login_method = LDAP\|MD5
Tags	No tags attached.

has duplicate	0012062	resolved	dregad	User cration on-the-fly and double authentication
has duplicate	0017177	closed	atrol	Add double authentication ldap/db
has duplicate	0017223	closed	atrol	two possible authentification
has duplicate	0021719	closed	atrol	having double authentication MD5/LDAP
has duplicate	0023976	closed	atrol	Ldap with local accounts
has duplicate	0017418	closed	atrol	fallback authentication
has duplicate	0036831	resolved	dregad	Administrative lockout risk: Lack of local database fallback when LDAP authentication is enabled
related to	0024023	new		auth_does_password_match() - use user auth_flags()

noe 2014-05-16 10:15 reporter ~0040302	This option would be very useful for me. Testlink has this option.

Mr.Bricodage 2015-10-08 10:58 reporter ~0051615	http://fluffy.mantisbt.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3491

dregad 2026-09-28 09:08 developer ~0071478	As mentioned in 0036831:0070723, it is possible to achieve such a fallback feature easily with an Auth plugin, without touching the core. Please have a look at https://github.com/mantisbt-plugins/SampleAuth.