User Guide
• An account for admin.
• If LDAP authentication is specified for the console server, accounts for all users who need
to log in to the console server to administer connected devices.
• If LDAP authentication is specified for serial ports, accounts for users who need
administrative access to the connected devices.
To configure LDAP authentication:
1. Select Security - Authentication - LDAP in Expert mode. The LDAP form displays with
LDAP Server and LDAP Base fields filled in from with the current values in the
/etc/ldap.conf file.
2. Supply the IP address of the LDAP server in the LDAP Server field.
3. If the LDAP authentication server uses a different distinguished name for the search base
than the one displayed in the LDAP Base field, change the definition.
The default distinguished name is dc, as in dc=value,dc=value. If the distinguished
name on the LDAP server is o, then replace dc in the base field with o, as in
o=value,o=value.
4. Replace the default base name with the name of your LDAP domain.
For example, for the LDAP domain name avocent.com, the correct entry is:
dc=avocent,dc=com.
5. Enable Secure LDAP, if required.
6. Enter optional information in LDAP User Name, LDAP Password and LDAP Login
Attributefields.
7. Click apply changes. The changes are stored in /etc/ldap.conf on the console server.
Group Authorization on LDAP
Group information retrieval from an LDAP authentication server adds another layer of security
by adding a network-based authorization. It retrieves the group information from the
authentication server and performs an authorization through the console server.
To configure a Kerberos authentication server:
Perform the following procedure to configure a Kerberos authentication server when the
console server or any of its ports is configured to use Kerberos authentication method or any of
its variations (Kerberos, Kerberos/Local or KerberosDownLocal).
Before starting this procedure, find out the following information from the Kerberos server
administrator:
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