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Counld not find userBaserDN on the LDAP server

sridharanreddy
Explorer

I am find few challenges to configure LDAP. Please help me out with this error?

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krugger
Communicator

Go to:

Manager » Access controls » Authentication method » LDAP strategies » YourLDAP

And check the user base DN. It will depend on your AD layout. Example:

OU=YouruserOU,DC=internal,DC=splunk,DC=com

Usually I want all users from a certain AD security group. So I put:


user base filter: (objectclass=user)
user name attribute: samaccountname
real name attribute: cn
group mapping attribute: dn

And then in the group section I put:

Group Base DN: OU=Groups,OU=YouruserOU,DC=internal,DC=splunk,DC=com
static group search filter: (name=Splunk)
group name attribute: cn
static member attribute: member

These config assum there is a group name Splunk in the AD and people allowed to use splunk should be a member of this group. So you have to adapt it to your AD layout.

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krugger
Communicator

Are you sure you have your user base DN pointing to something that exists in your AD structure?

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sridharanreddy
Explorer

Still i am facing the same error, what might be the issue.

The Splunk Server is presently live.

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