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VCS Deployment Guide: Authenticating VCS accounts using LDAP (VCS X7.2)

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Contents

Introduction ......................................................................................................................... 3

Usage ...................................................................................................................................................... 3

VCS configuration ............................................................................................................... 4

Configure LDAP server details on VCS ................................................................................................... 4

Status messages on the Login account LDAP configuration page .................................................. 6

Configure DNS server ............................................................................................................................. 6

Define groups on VCS ............................................................................................................................. 7

Groups for administrator login .......................................................................................................... 7

Groups for user login ........................................................................................................................ 8

Define groups in the authentication server .............................................................................................. 8

Set login authentication to use remote database .................................................................................... 8

Appendix 1 – IT requisition (for access to authentication server) ..................................10

Appendix 2 – IT requisition (for group configuration) .....................................................11

Appendix 3 – Active Directory structure ...........................................................................12

Appendix 4 – Configuring groups in Active Directory .....................................................14

Create a group object ............................................................................................................................ 14

Make a user a member of a group ........................................................................................................ 15

Appendix 5 – Troubleshooting ..........................................................................................16

Viewing / searching LDAP database ..................................................................................................... 16

Unable to log in after switching to remote authentication ...................................................................... 16

AD “Domain Users” group fails to allow login ........................................................................................ 16

Appendix 6 – Certificates for TLS .....................................................................................17

Appendix 7 – Use with VCS clusters .................................................................................18

Document revision history ................................................................................................19