User Guide

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User Attribute Refers to one of the following:
1. the LDAP attribute that contains the user name used for
authenticating a client in the domain.
The default user attribute name is uid.
Do not use the Bind ISD DN and Bind ISD Password
fields.
2. if the client’s portal logon name is different from the
RDN (for example, when using LDAP for authentication
towards Active Directory), the LDAP attribute that is
used in combination with the client’s logon name to
search the DIT.
For example, a user record in Active Directory is
defined as the following DN: cn=Bill Smith,
ou=Users, dc=example, dc=com. The user
record also contains the attribute
sAMAccountName=bill. The user’s login name is
bill. If the user attribute is defined as
sAMAccountName, the user record for Bill Smith will
be found.
The Bind ISD DN and Bind ISD Password fields are
required so that the Nortel SNAS 4050 can
authenticate itself to the LDAP server, in order to
search the DIT.
Bind ISD DN Specifies an entry in the LDAP server used to authenticate
the Nortel SNAS 4050 to the LDAP server, so that the
LDAP DIT can be searched.
The Bind ISD DN corresponds to an entry created in the
Schema Admins account (for example,
cn=ldap ldap,
cn=Users, dc=example, dc=com).
Required for the Search Base Entry and User Attribute
method 2.
Bind ISD Password Specifies the password used to authenticate the Nortel
SNAS 4050 to the LDAP server. The Bind ISD Password is
the password, configured in the Schema Admins account,
for the entry referenced in Bind ISD DN.
Required for the Search Base Entry and User Attribute
method 2.
Table 46 LDAP Configuration fields (continued)
Field Description