Directory authentication configuration

Directory configuration

Authentication:

Note: Authentication configuration changes are dynamic and automatically take effect within 1 minute.

Authenticate users based on their AOL screen name:
Select this option if you have stored your user's AOL screen names in your LDAP Directory and want to lookup their real user names based on the AOL screen name.

Authenticate users based on their network address:
Select this option if you have stored your users network addresses in your LDAP Directory and/or if you don't have their AOL screen names available (Users might be reluctant to give them up/disclose them or might change them/register new ones).

Attribute Name:
Provide the name of the LDAP schema attribute which stores either the AOL screen name or the network address in the directory. The default is "uid", which means IMtegrity will attempt to find the AOL screen name or network address in the "user id" field. Depending on your LDAP directory, you might need to change the attribute name.

Custom prefix:
You can prefix the AOL screen name or network address with an identifier of your choice to better distinguish them from other entries in your directory. This is entirely optional and intended for better "housekeeping" only.

For example, if the "uid" attribute contains multiple name variations of a users name and you want to store the AOL screen name as part of the "uid" attribute, you could add it simply as annother value. For example, take the following sample directory entry for the fictious user "Jim Murphy":

"uid" attribute contains multiple name variations, incl. his AOL screen name:

Jim Murphy/IMtegrity
James Murphy/IMtegrity
JMurphy23456
Jim Murphy
James Murphy

In this example, the entry "JMurphy23456" is his AOL screen name, but it is not obvious and makes the directory harder to manage. However, if you use a prefix like "Screen-name: ", the directory entry would be clearer to understand:

Jim Murphy/IMtegrity
James Murphy/IMtegrity
Screen-name: JMurphy23456
Jim Murphy
James Murphy

In this particular example, you would set the Screen-name prefix field to "Screen-name: "
The IMtegrity Proxy Server will strip the specified screen-name prefix off before it processes it, ie. sends it to the public AOL AIM servers to log in.