Best practice for site with existing WP users

  • Hi,

    I’m looking for a “best practice” on how to configure the plugin when installing on a site that already has existing WP users (who have the same e-mail that their AD users have).
    For example, if I have [email protected] existing in WP, and my AD user also uses [email protected], should I delete the WP user first? Will the plugin recognize the existing user and “link” it to the AD user? What will happen to the WP role already assigned to the user? (will it get overwritten by whatever is set for the user’s AD group?)

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  • Hello @urir,

    NADI will not recognize users that already exist nor will it link them back to the Active Directory accounts for security reasons.

    The best practice in our opinion is to delete the local WordPress users that are also present inside the Active Directory and let NADI recreate them.

    Every “Sync to WordPress” or “Automatic user update” NADI checks the Active Directory groups of the user and compares them with the “Role equivalent groups” mappings within the NADI configurations. By default NADI will remove all roles from a user and only assign the roles based on the current settings of the “Role equivalent groups” option. This is also for security reasons. For example if you remove an user in your Active Directory from a security group mapped to the WordPress role administrator, the user will automatically lose his WordPress administration roles on the next Sync.

    Best regards,
    medan123

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