Creating Authentication Maps

Use the Authentication page only if you are implementing directory authentication as opposed to storing authentication information in the PeopleSoft database. You create authentication maps to define mappings to one or more directories that the PeopleSoft system relies on for authenticating users. You can activate multiple authentication maps. Your PeopleSoft LDAP system authenticates users against all active authentication maps.

Authentication maps are used to specify the following information for LDAP authentication:

• The identity of all the LDAP servers to be searched and their credentials.

• The locations where the search has to be performed inside the LDAP.

• The attribute of the entries that must be matched with the signon user ID.

This section discusses how to:

• Define an authentication map.

• Use the Search Attribute field in authentication maps.