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Setting Up LDAP Authentication

This is a task of the Process of Configuring LDAP and ADSI for Analytics Authentication.

External authentication is determined by the presence of a defined session system variable USER. Associating USER with an LDAP initialization block determines that USER is authenticated by LDAP. Whenever a user logs into Siebel Analytics Server, the user name and password are passed to the LDAP server for authentication. After the user is authenticated successfully, other session variables for the user might also be populated from information returned by the LDAP server.

To configure LDAP authentication, you perform the following tasks:

• Create an LDAP initialization block.

  For details of how to create an initialization block, see the topics on session variables in Siebel Analytics Server Administration Guide.)

• Associate this initialization block with an LDAP server.
• Define a system variable called USER.
• Associate the USER system variable with the LDAP initialization block.

NOTE:  To provide other forms of authentication, you associate the USER variable with an initialization block associated with an external database or XML source. For details of how to set up other forms of authentication, see the topics on session variables in Siebel Analytics Server Administration Guide.)