{"id":380,"date":"2020-09-12T20:26:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T20:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/?p=380"},"modified":"2020-09-12T20:26:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T20:26:10","slug":"adding-ucs-authentication-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/?p=380","title":{"rendered":"Adding UCS Authentication Account"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Adding an account to use in authenticating against the LDAP directory is a simple enough. The process is done all within the LDAP directory GUI from the Domain menu option in UCS. Navigate to the &#8220;user&#8221; container, and select the add button. Select the type of the account to be a &#8220;Simple Authentication Account&#8221;, pick a username and password and click add.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Domain -&gt; LDAP Directory<\/li><li>User Container, Add<\/li><li>Type: Simple Authentication Account<\/li><li>Username: my-new-auth-account<\/li><li>Click Add<\/li><li>Profit<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This user account can now be used in a service to authenticate against the LDAP server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Using the Simple Authentication Account<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>An example Reader Domain Name (DN) (Sometimes cause a search user, bind DN) is below, that with the password is enough to allow a service to use the LDAP directory. I create new users for each service to use in their authentication, each with long randomly generated passwords.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">uid=my-new-auth-account,cn=users,dc=rapternet,dc=us<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adding an account to use in authenticating against the LDAP directory is a simple enough. The process is done all within the LDAP directory GUI from the Domain menu option in UCS. Navigate to the &#8220;user&#8221; container, and select the add button. Select the type of the account to be a &#8220;Simple Authentication Account&#8221;, pick &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/?p=380\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Adding UCS Authentication Account&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[46,45,14,44,43],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","tag-authentication","tag-ldap","tag-quick-bites","tag-ucs","tag-univention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}