Novell iManager 2.7.5 Administration Guide - NetIQ

2.5.5 Contextless Login Using Alternate Object Classes and/or Alternate
Attributes
To enable contextless authentication using an alternate object type, do the following:
1 Open iManager and browse to Configure > iManager Server > Configure iManager > Authentication.
If you do not see this task, you are not an authorized user. See “Authorized Users and Groups”
on page 70.
2 Set Public Username and Password to a user that has rights to read the desired attributes.
3 Modify \webapps\nps\WEB-INF\config.xml to include a property
that lists the attributes you want to add to the contextless search, and then restart Tomcat.
For information about restarting Tomcat, see “Starting and Stopping Tomcat” on page 94.
For example, the following XML adds the Alias and User objects to the contextless search:
Similarly, the following XML allows users to log in with the CN or uniqueID attribute:
IMPORTANT:
• In the sample code above, replace treename with the name of the appropriate directory tree in
lower case.
• If you save any iManager Server settings from the Configure iManager task after editing the
config.xml file, verify that the tree name is still in lowercase or customized contextless login
will fail.
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