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Chapter 11 Administrative API Reference
AuthenticationMechanism
TheAuthenticationMechanismelementdefinestheauthenticationmechanismusedbytheLDAPservice.
Table 11‐2showspermittedvaluesforelementcontentandtheresultstheyproduce.
ConnectorType
TheConnectorTypeelementdefinesthetypeofanLDAPservice.Table 11‐3showspermittedvaluesfor
elementcontentandtheresultstheyproduce.
UserName 0 1 xs:string Usernametousewhenlogginginto
LDAP,specifiedusingLDAP
attribute=valuepairs(forexample:
cn="ldap-admin", dc="example",
dc="com")
Password 0 1 xs:string Passwordfortheuseridentifiedby
UserName.Thisvalueisnever
returnedbyGET.Itisinspectedon
createandmodify.Onmodify,the
absenceofthiselementindicatesthat
thepasswordshouldnot
bechanged.
AuthenticationMechanism 1 1 LdapAuthentication
MechanismType
Definestheauthenticationmechanism
usedbytheLDAPservice
GroupSearchBase 0 1 xs:string LDAPgroupsearchbase
IsGroupSearchBaseEnabled 1 1 xs:boolean Trueifthegroupsearchbaseisenabled
ConnectorType 1 1 LdapConnectorType DefinesthetypeoftheLDAPservice
UserAttributes 1 1 OrgLdapUserAttributesType DefineshowLDAPattributesareused
whenimportingauser
GroupAttributes 1 1 OrgLdapGroupAttributesType DefineshowLDAPattributesareused
whenimportingagroup
Table 11-2. AuthenticationMechanism Element Values
Value Result
SIMPLE LDAPconnectionusessimpleauthenticationasspecifiedinRFC2251andRFC2829.
KERBEROS LDAPconnectionusesKerberosauthentication.
MD5DIGEST LDAPconnectionusesDigest‐MD5authenticationasspecifiedinRFC2831.
NTLM LDAPconnectionusesWindowsNTLMauthentication.
Table 11-3. ConnectorType Element Values
Value Result
ACTIVE_DIRECTORY LDAPserviceisprovidedbyWindowsActiveDirectory
OPEN_LDAP
LDAPserviceisprovidedbyOpenLDAP(see
http://www.openldap.org).
Schema (Continued)
Name Min Max Type Description