Skip to content

Commit 3e9fe3c

Browse files
authored
[DOCS] Reorganizes authentication details in Stack Overview (#30280)
1 parent fb0aa56 commit 3e9fe3c

14 files changed

+383
-447
lines changed

x-pack/docs/en/security/authentication.asciidoc

-350
This file was deleted.

x-pack/docs/en/security/authentication/active-directory-realm.asciidoc

+7-8
Original file line numberDiff line numberDiff line change
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
11
[[active-directory-realm]]
2-
=== Active Directory User Authentication
2+
=== Active Directory user authentication
33

44
You can configure {security} to communicate with Active Directory to authenticate
55
users. To integrate with Active Directory, you configure an `active_directory`
@@ -33,26 +33,25 @@ retrieves the user's group memberships from the `tokenGroups` attribute on the
3333
user's entry in Active Directory.
3434

3535
[[ad-load-balancing]]
36-
==== Load Balancing and Failover
36+
==== Load balancing and failover
3737
The `load_balance.type` setting can be used at the realm level to configure how
3838
{security} should interact with multiple Active Directory servers. Two modes of
3939
operation are supported: failover and load balancing.
4040

4141
See {ref}/security-settings.html#load-balancing[Load Balancing and Failover Settings].
4242

4343
[[ad-settings]]
44-
==== Active Directory Realm Settings
44+
==== Active Directory realm settings
4545

4646
See {ref}/security-settings.html#ref-ad-settings[Active Directory Realm Settings].
4747

4848
[[mapping-roles-ad]]
49-
==== Mapping Active Directory Users and Groups to Roles
49+
==== Mapping Active Directory users and groups to roles
5050

5151
See {ref}/configuring-ad-realm.html[Configuring an Active Directory realm].
5252

5353
[[ad-user-metadata]]
54-
==== User Metadata in Active Directory Realms
55-
54+
==== User metadata in Active Directory realms
5655
When a user is authenticated via an Active Directory realm, the following
5756
properties are populated in the user's _metadata_:
5857

@@ -72,7 +71,7 @@ Additional metadata can be extracted from the Active Directory server by configu
7271
the `metadata` setting on the Active Directory realm.
7372

7473
[[active-directory-ssl]]
75-
==== Setting up SSL Between Elasticsearch and Active Directory
74+
==== Setting up SSL between Elasticsearch and Active Directory
7675

7776
See
78-
{ref}/configuring-tls.html#tls-active-directory[Encrypting communications between {es} and Active Directory].
77+
{ref}/configuring-tls.html#tls-active-directory[Encrypting communications between {es} and Active Directory].

0 commit comments

Comments
 (0)