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LDAP Participants - passwords?

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Updated December 1, 2016

asked on November 21, 2016

We have configured LDAP and verified that it works. Now the problem is when we add participants, we have to put in a password but what if we want LDAP to use the account's password? How do we achieve this? Leaving it blank didn't work and I don't really want to as 40 of our participants for their passwords.

I read the documentation but it doesn't really mention anything about participant license passwords.

Thanks!

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replied on November 21, 2016

Hi Lidija,

Where are you being prompted for participant passwords?

If you have configured distinguished names in the LDAP profile to synchronize as Forms participants, you should be able to just click the "Synchronize" button, and the users should appear. They will be able to log in using their e-mail address and Windows account password; you should not be prompted to include a password for these users. If you are using the "Add Participant" button, that is adding a completely separate kind of Participant, not related to the LDAP Participants. You can think of it like the difference between a Laserfiche named user and a Windows account with a named user license for a Laserfiche repository.

If you have set up the LDAP profile and no users are being synchronized to have Participant licenses, there may be an issue with the configuration of the LDAP profile.

Hope this helps to clear it up, and please let me know if I've misunderstood the situation.

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replied on November 30, 2016

I see what you are saying! So for anyone else that didn't understand this:

Click on Configure LDAP and then add the Base Distinguished Name of the person you want to license to that window. You can add distinguished names, based on how many participant licenses you have.

You can find this value in AD, Attribute Editor tab (enable Advanced features), distinguishedName.

Thanks so much James!

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replied on November 30, 2016

Just to clarify one point, you don't need to add the distinguished name of each LDAP participant; you can add the distinguished name of say an OU (~organizational unit) and it will attempt to synchronize all of the CNs within that OU.

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replied on December 1, 2016

That makes sense, our structure won't allow it though :( Thanks!

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