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LDAP (OpenLDAP)

LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is a protocol used to access and manage directory information such as user credentials. SciCat can use LDAP as third-party authentication provider.

Configuration options

The OpenLDAP configuration is set by the .env file .

For an extensive list of available options see here .

You can add other users by editing the ldif file . ⚠ User creation is only done once, when the container is created.

Default configuration

The default configuration .env file creates the dc=facility domain with the following user:

Username Password
ldap-user password