Symantec Security 5600 Series, Security 5400 Series,Clientless VPN 4400 Series, Administration Manual

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LDAP Properties—General tab
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) provides access to a directory that holds user and group
information that can be used to authenticate users accessing the security gateway.
LDAP authentication for the security gateway includes both LDAP and LDAPS, which is LDAP over
SSL. For LDAPS, you can upload certificate authorities through the same mechanism that handles
certificate authorities for the WebVPN. The maximum number of certificate authorities that can be
stored is only limited by available disk space; however, large numbers of certificate authorities may
adversely affect performance.
Associated tasks
The task that you can perform with this tab is:
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“Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) authentication” on page 255
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Table D-141 LDAP Properties—General tab
Field Description
Name A unique name for the LDAP authentication server record.
The maximum length is 256 characters.
Allowed characters include a-z, A-Z, numerals, periods (.), dashes (-), and underscores (_).
Do not include spaces in the name. The characters @,!,#,$,%,^,&,*,<,> and other reserved
characters are also invalid.
SSL-based Instructs the security gateway to communicate with the LDAP authentication server
using the SSL-based secure version of the LDAP protocol.
Primary server IP address or fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the primary LDAP authentication
server.
Primary server port TCP port on the primary LDAP server on which the security gateway communicates.
The default port is 389.
Alternate server IP address or fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the primary LDAP authentication
server. The security gateway only uses this server for authentication when it is unable to
communicate with the primary LDAP server.
Alternate server port TCP port on the alternate LDAP server on which the security gateway communicates.
The default port is 389.
Caption An optional, brief description of the LDAP authentication server.
The maximum length is 128 characters.
For longer descriptions, use the Description tab.