blackvoid Portainer - login via LDAP hosted on Synology NAS

Personally, I use Portainer for all my Docker container needs (with all my hosts). One thing that Portainer offers is multi-user access with various teams, and permission levels.

Portainer offers three (3) authentication methods:

• Internal
• LDAP
• OAuth (since 2.6 it supports custom OAuth)

Portainer main Authentication methods

In this article, I would like to show how you can set up your Synology NAS to be a valid LDAP server and connect it to your Portainer.

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[Shadow]

Ah I have been using this for quite some time now. I do find it a bit disappointing it cannot work using the FQDN of the LDAP server, eventough DNS works fine in the network. It HAS to use the IP address.

 

[Micky]

So, AD is not possible, or maybe Synology's own OAuth implementation?

 

[Rusty]

So, AD is not possible, or maybe Synology's own OAuth implementation?

AD is possible and oauth as well since Portainer 2.6 but just a custom implementation not Azure, Google, github for the moment.

 

[Micky]

I meant Synology's Directory Server in this case. Can this setup easily be done?

 

[Rusty]

I meant Synology's Directory Server in this case. Can this setup easily be done?

Aha, no I haven't tested that one.