User guide

Configuring LDAP

3. UnderPrimaryLDAP,typetheIPaddressoftheLDAPserverand

theportitislisteningon(defaultis389)intheIPAddressandPort

fields.

4. Typetherootpasswordtoaccessthedirectoryserver/managerinthe

Secretfield.ThenameforthisfielddependsontheDir

ectoryServer.

Forex

ample,MicrosoftWindowsActiveDirectoryreferstothefield

asPassword,whiletheSUNiPlanetdirectoryserverusesSecret.

5. TypetheʹrootʹpointtobindtotheserverintheBaseDNfield.Thisis

thesameasDirectoryManagerDN(forexample,BaseDn:

cn=DirectoryManager).

6. Typeastrin

gintheQ

ueryfield.Makesurethesamestringisadded

asanattributeinthe Searchfield.Forexample,iftheauthorization

querystringisDominionSX,anattributenamedDominionSXmust

beaddedunderthegivendomainspecifiedbytheSearchfield.On

topofthat,ausergro

upmu

sthavebeencreatedinDSXtomapwith

theoneinWindowsActiveDirectoryfortheseconfigurationsto

workcorrectly.

7. TypethedomainnamewherethesearchstartsintheSearchfield.

TheSearchfieldisthesub‐treeoftheBaseDNtodirectthesearchto

thepa

thoftheus

erinformationsuchasUIDandspeedupsearch

time.Inotherwords,itisthedomainname.Thisiswherethesearch

startsfortheusername.Theusernameiscreatedinthisdomain(for

example,Search:dc=raritan,dc=com)toprocessLDAP

thenticationqueriesfromDominionSX.

8. IfyouareusingamodemtoconnecttotheLDAPserver,typea

dialbackstringintheDialbackQuery Stringfield.

9. IfyouhaveabackupLDAPserver,enterthesameinformationinthe

SecondaryLDAPfields.

10. ClickOK.LDAPauthenticationisenab

led.