Configuring LDAP authentication in Adeptia Connect

You must configure Adeptia Connect for LDAP authentication to allow LDAP users to access Adeptia Connect. This page also lists the steps for configuring Adeptia Connect for secured LDAP.

This page contains the following information:

Prerequisites

• Installed LDAP Server.
• Administrative rights in Adeptia Connect to enable LDAP Authentication and Authorization.
• Adeptia Connect is certified with Windows Active Directory and Open LDAP server.
• TLSv1.2 should be enabled on LDAP Server (in case of Secured LDAP).

Configuring LDAP properties

1. Click Account > Settings.

2. Expand the Application Settings in the left panel.
3. Select LDAP.
4. Click the Settings tab.
5. Expand LDAP Configuration.
   You'll see all the configurable properties for LDAP.
6. Double-click the corresponding value field for a property.

7. Change the value for the property, and click Update.

   The following table contains the properties related to LDAP configuration.

   Property Name	Description
   abpm.ldap.defaultRole	Assigns default role to a user who doesn't belong to a group or lies in a group that is not mapped to any role.
   abpm.ldap.enableLdap	Enable or disable LDAP authentication.
   abpm.ldap.provider.url	Provider URL to connect to LDAP Server.
   abpm.ldap.enableLdapOverSSL	Enable or disable LDAP connection over SSL.
   abpm.ldap.searchScopeLevel	Search scope level - One, Object, and Subtree.
   abpm.ldap.bindDN	The DN used to bind against the LDAP server for the user and roles queries. This is DN with read/search permissions on the baseContextDN and rolesContextDN values. It specifies DN of the admin user in LDAP server.
   abpm.ldap.bindCredential	Password for the bindDN.
   abpm.ldap.baseContextDN	Fixed DN of the context to start the user search from.
   abpm.ldap.baseFilter	Search filter to locate the context of the user to authenticate. The input username as obtained from the login module callback will be substituted into the filter where a "{0}" expression is seen.
   abpm.ldap.rolesContextDN	Fixed DN of the context to search for user roles. For Active Directory, this is the DN where the user account is.
   abpm.ldap.roleFilter	Search filter to locate the roles associated with an authenticated user. The login module callback will be substituted into the filter anywhere a "{0}"expression is seen. The authenticated userDN will be substitute into the filter where a "{1}" expression is seen.
   abpm.ldap.roleAttributeID	Name of the role attribute of the context that corresponds to the name of the role. If the value of the roleAttributeIsDN property is set to true, this property is the DN of the context to query for the roleNameAttributeID attribute. If the roleAttributeIsDN property is set to false, this property is the attribute name of the role name.
   abpm.ldap.roleAttributeIsDN	Flag indicating whether the user's role attribute contains the fully distinguished name of a role object, or the user's role attribute contains the role name. If the value of this property is false, the role name is taken from the value of the user's role attribute. If the value of this property is true, the role attribute represents the distinguished name of a role object. The role name is taken from the value of the roleNameAttributeId attribute of the corresponding object. The default value of this property is false.
   abpm.ldap.roleNameAttributeID	Name of the role attribute of the context that corresponds to the name of the role. If the value of the roleAttributeIsDN property is set to true, this property is used to find the role object's name attribute. If the value of the roleAttributeIsDN property is set to false, this property is ignored.
   abpm.ldap.roleDN.searchRoleNameAttributeID	Enable or disable searching role name attribute in user's distinguished name.
   abpm.ldap.enableSSO	Enable or disable Single Sign-On in Adeptia Connect.
   abpm.ldap.sso.filterClass	Class name that needs to be initiated for SSO authentication process.
   abpm.ldap.enable.anonymous.login	Enable or disable anonymous login through blank password in LDAP.
   abpm.ldap.referrals	Set the environment property referrals in LDAP.