Knowledge Discovery 26.1
Document Security Administration Guide

# Retrieve Groups from LDAP

This section describes how to configure OmniGroupServer to retrieve user and group information from an LDAP directory.

To retrieve security information from an LDAP directory

1. Open the OmniGroupServer configuration file.

2. In the `[Repositories]` section, create a repository to store the LDAP groups. For example:

       [Repositories]
       Number=1
       0=LDAP

3. Create a section to contain the task details and set the following configuration parameters:

   `GroupServerLibrary` | The path (including the file name) to the library file that allows the group server to access the repository. Use the LDAP group server library, `ogs_ldap`.
   `LDAPServer` | The host name or IP address of the machine that hosts the LDAP directory.
   `LDAPPort` | The port to use to access the LDAP directory.
   `LDAPBase` | The distinguished name of the search base.
   `LDAPType` | The type of LDAP server (for example, `MAD` for Microsoft Active Directory).
   `LDAPSecurityType` | The type of security to use when communicating with the LDAP server (for example, `SSL` or `TLS`).
   `LDAPBindMethod` | The type of authentication to use to access the LDAP directory. To log on as the same user that is running OmniGroupServer, set this parameter to `NEGOTIATE`.

   For example:

       [LDAP]
       GroupServerLibrary=ogs_ldap
       LDAPServer=myLDAPserver
       LDAPPort=636
       LDAPBase=DC=DOMAIN,DC=COM
       LDAPType=MAD
       LDAPSecurityType=SSL
       LDAPBindMethod=NEGOTIATE

   For a complete list of configuration parameters that you can use, refer to the OmniGroupServer Reference.

4. Save and close the OmniGroupServer configuration file.

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Product: Knowledge Discovery 26.1

Topic Title: Retrieve Groups from LDAP