LDAP Authentication

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a set of protocols used to access information stored in an information directory, which is an LDAP directory. An LDAP directory is a database, but not a relational database, used to manage information that is spread across multiple servers on a network and is optimized for read performance.

You can use LDAP to delegate authentication of an external user account to an LDAP directory and to provide authentication using the same security information used for other applications in your company. If your company has already adopted LDAP, you can use your existing LDAP directories.

User account authentication does not require the LDAP adapter, which is used with business processes to communicate with local or remote LDAP servers using a Java Naming Directory Interface (JNDI).

If your LDAP server is not working, users who have internal accounts retain access; however, those users who have external accounts do not have access until the LDAP server is working.