LDAP service settings

The LDAP service (LDAPService) provides operations for querying LDAP directories. LDAP directories are generally used to store information about the people, groups, and services in an organization.

The following settings are available for the LDAP service. For details on how to configure these settings, see Configure service settings.

Initial Context Factory:
The Java class to use as the context factory. This class is used to create a connection to the LDAP server. The default value is com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory, which is appropriate for most LDAP servers.

Provider URL:
The URL to use to connect to the LDAP service. The format of the value is ldap://server name:port

server name is the name of the computer that hosts the LDAP server

port is the communications port that the LDAP service uses. The default value is 389, which is the standard port used for LDAP connections.

User Name:
The user name of the user account to use to log in to the LDAP server. The user account needs to have permission to connect to the server and read the information in the LDAP directory.

Depending on the LDAP server, the user name could be a simple user name such as myname or a DN, such as cn=myname,cn=users,dc=myorg.

Password:
The password that corresponds with the user name provided for the Username setting.

Other Properties:
A string value that represents other properties and their corresponding values that you can provide to the LDAP server. The value is in the following format:

property=value;property=value;...

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