Lóránd Somogyi

We use Maven2 for developing our huge application, (and few smaller). We have almost 200 projects which depends on each other somehow. That’s why I really like Maven2. It was a nightmare to handle all those dependencies by hand, – as we did it before moving to Maven. Of course there are other great things about Maven, like reports, site and of course the release management. – OK, there is still an annoying bug with release plugin, ranges and snapshots, but we can live with it.

With the release of 2.0.9, we got a new powerful feature for handling dependency versions. The so called “Importing Dependencies” noted in release notes and described in the documentation and in wiki.

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We use Continuum 1.1 as our Continuous Integration server. We also have an LDAP directory that we like to use whenever it comes to user management. So we tried to integrate Continuum with LDAP. As described by the documentation, and here we configured the Continuum to use LDAP authentication.

Everything looked fine. Users could log in, as expected.

But there was one nasty problem. When we tried to change user roles, the users were not in the users list. Even if they logged in, the list showed only the admin and the guest user (and one user created before the LDAP configuration). We tried to google for an answer, but no luck. We tried to tweak the configuration, but it did not worked…

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