Scenario 2: LDAP Authentication without Group Membership

This workflow describes the steps for authenticating a user without group membership.

In this scenario, the user is authenticated against the LDAP server with a user ID and a user-supplied password.

Procedure

User provides user name and password to log in.
Login request is received by the Team Studio back end.
The Team Studio back end verifies that the user name is a registered/licensed user. Note that we are not authenticating the user's password at this time. We are only verifying that the user is a valid Team Studio user.
The Team Studio back end sends an authentication request to LDAP server. The request parameters consists of a Distinguished Name (DN) and user supplied password. The DN is obtained by querying the LDAP server.
LDAP Server authenticates the user and returns.
If the user is authenticated successfully by LDAP server, the Team Studio back end sends the user to the dashboard page. If LDAP server fails to authenticate the user, appropriate error message is displayed to the user.