Step 5: Validate the LDAP configuration information
Procedure
Before continuing to enable LDAP authentication, use the installutil
validateldap subcommand to confirm that your configuration
settings allow HCL Compass to
correctly find an LDAP user entry in the LDAP directory. The installutil
validateldap subcommand uses an LDAP user name and password
and the HCL Compass database
set's LDAP configuration settings to perform an LDAP authentication.
The subcommand also prints the configuration settings.
Results
If the validation fails and returns a nonzero error code, examine the error message and the settings. If necessary, ask your LDAP administrator to review the error message and settings to find the problem. After you find the incorrect configuration settings, rerun only the subcommand that generates those settings and then rerun the installutil validateldap subcommand to confirm that your fix works.
Example
The following example validates the LDAP settings set by attempting to authenticate a user whose LDAP user name is test_user and whose LDAP password is test_pwd.
installutil validateldap dbset_name cq_user cq_password
installutil validateldap 7.0.0 admin secret test_user test_pwd