LDAP User Authentication

Replication Server uses OpenLDAP client APIs to communicate with the LDAP server for user authentication.

The OpenLDAP API, which is precompiled with OpenSSL, is dynamically loaded from a shared library, libsybaseldap*, found in the $SYBASE/$OCS/lib3p or $SYBASE/$OCS/lib3p64 directory.

The LDAP user authentication uses an LDAP URL to search the user information. The LDAP URL is defined in the sysadmin ldap command.

ldap://john.doe.com:8888/dc=doe,dc=com??SUB?(cn=*)

See Replication Server Reference Manual > Replication Server Commands> sysadmin ldap.

• Replication Server and LDAP User Account Management
  An LDAP administrator creates and maintains user accounts in the LDAP server.
• LDAP User Authentication Configuration
  The LDAP user authentication allows you to use LDAP enterprise-wide passwords instead of Replication Server passwords.