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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# Copyright 2016 Openmarket
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+from ._base import Config
+
+import importlib
+
+
+class PasswordAuthProviderConfig(Config):
+ def read_config(self, config):
+ self.password_providers = []
+
+ # We want to be backwards compatible with the old `ldap_config`
+ # param.
+ ldap_config = config.get("ldap_config", {})
+ self.ldap_enabled = ldap_config.get("enabled", False)
+ if self.ldap_enabled:
+ from synapse.util.ldap_auth_provider import LdapAuthProvider
+ parsed_config = LdapAuthProvider.parse_config(ldap_config)
+ self.password_providers.append((LdapAuthProvider, parsed_config))
+
+ providers = config.get("password_providers", [])
+ for provider in providers:
+ # We need to import the module, and then pick the class out of
+ # that, so we split based on the last dot.
+ module, clz = provider['module'].rsplit(".", 1)
+ module = importlib.import_module(module)
+ provider_class = getattr(module, clz)
+
+ provider_config = provider_class.parse_config(provider["config"])
+ self.password_providers.append((provider_class, provider_config))
+
+ def default_config(self, **kwargs):
+ return """\
+ # password_providers:
+ # - module: "synapse.util.ldap_auth_provider.LdapAuthProvider"
+ # config:
+ # enabled: true
+ # uri: "ldap://ldap.example.com:389"
+ # start_tls: true
+ # base: "ou=users,dc=example,dc=com"
+ # attributes:
+ # uid: "cn"
+ # mail: "email"
+ # name: "givenName"
+ # #bind_dn:
+ # #bind_password:
+ # #filter: "(objectClass=posixAccount)"
+ """
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