Login Attribute

Use the following element in each LDAP or Active Directory provider section to specify a directory attribute that uniquely identifies all relevant user entries.

<loginAttribute></loginAttribute>

Replace the sample value with the correct information.

The attribute may be part of the DN, such as cn or uid; or a customized attribute, such as employee_ID; or any other attribute commonly used in the directory nodes of users. If the <loginAttribute> section is deleted, the default value is cn.

The following sample configuration states that the user names in which we are interested are using the "common name" attribute:

<loginAttribute>cn</loginAttribute>

The sample above is correct if it is true that all relevant user names are identified by cn = UserName, as is Autumn Smith in the following LDAP browser view of a corporate directory store:

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