Installing and configuring the LDAP Session Provider

Use these procedures in install the LDAP session provider for a grid. To determine if this is the appropriate session provider to install, see Session Provider Requirements and Selection.

The user login name

In some LDAP configurations, the user name used for login is not the same as the one that is assigned to the Grid Principal after a successful login. This depends on the overall configuration of the LDAP connections such as the selected user attribute, if any domain information is removed from the user name before login or if any advanced user search filter is used.

Some grid applications depend on being able to retrieve the original user login name from the Grid Principal. Therefore, there is a setting to provide the login name to these applications even if the Grid Principal gets another name. You can set the property using the Grid Management UI and during installation. This feature might have a negative effect on performance in systems with many concurrent users. Therefore, do not enable this feature if not necessary.