PaulAngus closed pull request #1: per domain ldap configs URL: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-documentation/pull/1
This is a PR merged from a forked repository. As GitHub hides the original diff on merge, it is displayed below for the sake of provenance: As this is a foreign pull request (from a fork), the diff is supplied below (as it won't show otherwise due to GitHub magic): diff --git a/source/adminguide/accounts.rst b/source/adminguide/accounts.rst index 3fbc97f..699ee15 100644 --- a/source/adminguide/accounts.rst +++ b/source/adminguide/accounts.rst @@ -279,15 +279,19 @@ or ApacheDS to authenticate CloudStack end-users. CloudStack will search the external LDAP directory tree starting at a specified base directory and gets user info such as first name, last name, email and username. +Starting with CloudStack 4.11, an ldap connection per domain can be +defined. + To authenticate, username and password entered by the user are used. Cloudstack does a search for a user with the given username. If it exists, it does a bind request with DN and password. To set up LDAP authentication in CloudStack, call the CloudStack API command ``addLdapConfiguration`` and provide Hostname or IP address -and listening port of the LDAP server. You could configure multiple -servers as well. These are expected to be replicas. If one fails, -the next one is used. +and listening port of the LDAP server. Optionally a domain id can be +given for the domain for which this LDP connection is valid. You could +configure multiple servers as well. These are expected to be +replicas. If one fails, the next one is used. The following global configurations should also be configured (the default values are for openldap) ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org With regards, Apache Git Services
