en-US/ldap-user-add.xml

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<section id="ldap-provision">
  <title>Provisioning LDAP Users in &PRODUCT;</title>
  <para>You can import LDAP users without creating users individually in &PRODUCT;. After users are
    imported to &PRODUCT; they can by authenticated to use &PRODUCT; by using their LDAP
    credentials. You can either directly import users from a given basedn, or alternatively, specify
    the search string or user attributes for &PRODUCT; to search the LDAP directory tree based on
    the query strings.</para>
  <orderedlist>
    <listitem>
      <para>Log in to the CloudPlatform UI as an administrator.</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>In the left navigation bar, click Accounts.</para>
      <para>The Account page is displayed.</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>In the Account page, click Add LDAP Users.</para>
      <para>The Add LDAP User screen lists all the users associated with the LDAP server you have
        configured.</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>In the Add LDAP Account screen, perform either of the following:</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>Manually select the users from the user list.</para>
          <para>&PRODUCT; displays all the users from the LDAP group configured.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Specify the search string or desired user attribute, then import users.</para>
          <itemizedlist>
            <listitem>
              <para>Domain</para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
              <para>Account</para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
              <para>User type</para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
              <para>Timezone</para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
              <para>Network Domain</para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
              <para>LDAP Group</para>
            </listitem>
          </itemizedlist>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>Click Add.</para>
    </listitem>
  </orderedlist>
</section>