Administrator Server Configuration: LDAP Authentication Realm Details

Note: This screen is only displayed if you selected LDAP as the Realm Type on the Administrator Server Configuration: Authentication Realm screen.
Field Description
Machine Name Port List Comma-separated list of URLs for an LDAP server. To achieve fault tolerance, you can specify multiple URLs. For example:

ldap://server1.example.com:686,ldap://server2.example.com:1686

Default: machineName:389

Fetch DN Retrieves the base DN of the LDAP server.
Bind DN Name The superuser's distinguished name or superuser's name to be used to connect to the server.

Default: uid=Manager,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com

Password LDAP server password.
Context Factory The factory object that provides the starting point for resolution of names within the LDAP server.

Default: com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory

User Search Configuration
User Search Base DN Base distinguished name from which the search starts.

Default: ou=people,ou=na,dc=example,dc=org

User Search Expression The expression used for searching a user. For example: (CN=%U). "%U" is replaced by the username being searched for. You can define any complex filter such as (&(cn=%U)(objectClass=account)).

Default: (&(uid={0})(objectclass=person))

User Attribute with User Name The name of the attribute in the user object that contains the user's name.

Default: uid

Search Timeout (ms) The time to wait for a response from the LDAP directory server.

Default: 30000

Follow Referrals Whether to follow LDAP referrals. When selected, requests to LDAP can be redirected to another server.

Select this field to indicate that the LDAP information might be available at another location, or possibly at another server or servers.

Note: Ask your LDAP administrator whether LDAP referrals are used in your domain.

Default: Cleared