Apache Syncope uses the concept of a schema to define attributes for User, Roles and Memberships (the relationship of a User with a Role). You can define the attribute name, the type, whether it is multi-valued, whether it is unique or read-only, whether it is stored internally or remotely, etc. There are three new interesting features in Syncope 1.2 in the area of Schemas:
- Configuration Schema: The Configuration parameters are now covered by the Schema. You can add new attributes for the Configuration section in the Schema section.
- Encrypted Schema attributes: A new "Encrypted" attribute type is available. This will ensure that Syncope always keeps the attribute value encrypted with the specified key.
- Binary Schema attributes: A new "Binary" attribute type is available.
1) Import X.509 Certificates into Syncope
The first use-case for binary schema attributes is to allow the synchronization of X.509 Certificates into Syncope from a backend resource. Go to the "Schema" tab, and create a new "User" attribute called "certificate" of type "Binary", and with mime type "application/x-x509-user-cert":
Next, go into the LDAP Resource configuration and add a new user mapping from the "certificate" attribute of the "UserSchema" to the LDAP "userCertificate" attribute. Now make sure that you have a user in your LDAP backend with a "userCertificate" attribute defined as follows:
Finally, run the synchronization task in Syncope. The user now has the certificate added as an attribute, which can be downloaded or else retrieved via the REST API:
2) Import images into Syncope
Another common use-case for binary attributes is to import images into Syncope. Create a new binary User attribute in the Schema called "image" of type "image/jpeg", and a new User mapping for the LDAP Connector mapping it to the LDAP "jpegPhoto" attribute. Assuming that a user in the LDAP backend has such an attribute defined, the newly synchronized User will look like this:
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