Before using LDAP, it is necessary to enable LDAP for the server.
To use LDAP, navigate to Network Configuration > NIS/LDAP Configuration and click Enable LDAP.
The current LDAP configuration settings appear as shown in the following example:
This page contains the following options:
- Modify - this option enables the Administrator to change the LDAP configuration settings
- Add - this option enables the Administrator to add a new LDAP server
- Delete - this option enables the Administrator to remove an existing LDAP server
- Switch to using NIS - this option enables NIS only mode and displays the NIS configuration settings
- Disable NIS and LDAP - this option disables NIS and LDAP
CLI commands
The following commands are available:
- nis-ldap-mode - this command selects whether the server uses NIS servers only or LDAP in order to satisfy NIS queries
- nis-state - this command enables and disables the NIS client (the NIS client also must be enabled in order to use LDAP)
- ldap-server - this command displays and configures the servers which are available for the LDAP client to contact
- ldap-stats - this command displays statistics describing the response latency of LDAP servers for different NIS (RFC 2307) request types
- ldap-security - this command displays and sets the LDAP parameters
- ldap-schema - this command displays and sets the LDAP client settings for schema selection