Nortel Networks 4050 User Manual

Chapter 6 Configuring authentication 253

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The LDAP menu displays.

The LDAP menu includes the following options:

followed by:

servers

Accesses the LDAP servers menu, in order to manage 
the external LDAP servers configured for the domain 
(see 

).

searchbase <DN>

Specifies the Distinguished Name (DN) that points to 
one of the following:

1. the entry that is one level up from the user entries

For example, if the searchbase value is set to: 

ou=People,dc=bluetail,dc=com

authentication will be performed against a DN that 
corresponds to:

uid = <user>, ou = People, dc = bluetail, and dc = 
com

where uid is an example of a user attribute, ou = 
organization unit, and dc = domain component.

Do not use the 

 and 

 

commands.

2. if user entries are located in several places in the 

LDAP Dictionary Information Tree (DIT), or if the 
client’s portal logon name is different from the user 
record identifier (RDN), the position in the DIT from 
where all user records can be found with a subtree 
search

The 

 and 

 parameters 

are required so that the Nortel SNAS 4050 can 
authenticate itself to the LDAP server, in order to 
search the DIT.

groupattr <names>

Specifies the LDAP attribute that contains the names of 
the groups. The group names contained in the LDAP 
attribute must be defined in the Nortel SNAS 4050 
domain (see 

To specify more than one group attribute name, enter 
the names separated by a comma (,).