How to use LDAP configured email address as the login id
Article ID: KB0075362
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| Products | Versions |
|---|---|
| Spotfire Server | All Versions |
Description
By default the Spotfire Server LDAP configuration for Active Directory servers, the user-name-attribute value defaults to sAMAccountName, which specifies the name of the LDAP attribute containing the user account names.
There have been scenarios where the organization would like to map the user to the email address while integrating with external Authentications using OpenID etc
There have been scenarios where the organization would like to map the user to the email address while integrating with external Authentications using OpenID etc
Issue/Introduction
How to use LDAP configured email address as the login id
Resolution
While using Activedirectory as User directory you can configure/map the user-name-attribute with the equivalent Active directory attribute for e.g. email address parameter which by default is set to the UserPrincipalname
Below is the screenshot of the LDAP attributes using the LDAP Browser
Below is the screenshot of the Spotfire Configuration tool, mapping the userprincipal name
If the full email address is required for authentication, disable the option to "Parse User and Domain name" as in the image below
Below is the screenshot of the LDAP attributes using the LDAP Browser
Below is the screenshot of the Spotfire Configuration tool, mapping the userprincipal name
If the full email address is required for authentication, disable the option to "Parse User and Domain name" as in the image below
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