feat: Active Directory LDAP group support

[tilwegener]

Summary

This PR adds a configurable LDAP group search filter. It allows Tinyauth to retrieve direct and nested Microsoft Active Directory groups while keeping the existing LLDAP/OpenLDAP behavior as default.

Example for Active Directory:

(&(objectClass=group)(member:1.2.840.113556.1.4.1941:=%s))
Retrieved groups are available through:

LDAP group ACLs
The Remote-Groups header
The OIDC groups claim

Existing installations remain unaffected unless the new group filter is explicitly configured.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • LDAP group-membership searches now use a configurable filter, with the user’s distinguished name supplied as a placeholder.
  • The default group-search filter matches groupOfUniqueNames entries whose uniquemember is the user’s distinguished name.
  • LDAP search filters substitute the escaped search input for the first %s placeholder.

• Documentation

  • Clarified the LDAP user-search filter’s username placeholder and documented the separate group-search filter and its distinguished-name placeholder.

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Walkthrough

LDAP user and group searches now substitute escaped values into configured filters. LDAP configuration adds a group search filter with a default that matches groupOfUniqueNames entries by uniquemember.

Changes

LDAP search filters

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Define LDAP search filters internal/model/config.go, .env.example	LDAP configuration adds GroupSearchFilter and its default. The environment example documents the user and group search filter settings and placeholders.
Apply configured LDAP filters internal/service/ldap_service.go	GetUserInfo substitutes the escaped username into the first literal %s in the configured user filter. GetUserGroups substitutes the escaped user DN into the first literal %s in the configured group filter.

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Change: Feature

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 1bb44

A misconfigured LDAP group filter can grant access based on unrelated groups. Validate both filter placeholders before merging.

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In `@internal/service/ldap_service.go`:
- Line 203: Update GetUserGroups to read the group-membership LDAP filter from
configuration, defaulting to the previous OpenLDAP expression using
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- Line 222: Update the GroupSearchFilter substitution in the LDAP group search
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