1. Overview
Mostly people use LDAP or Active Directory as a central place for user authentication and identity management software. Many services normally are integrated with LDAP or Active Directory such email and computer login. If the service is not integrate with LDAP or Active Directory, users may end up with having many accounts and passwords for their daily work. LDAP or Active Directory identity management software have account and password policy which it could enhance security in the internal company. TeamPass password management solution has its own built-in user authentication mechanism, but it also can be integrated with LDAP or an Active Directory identity management software for user authentication.
In this instruction will show how to integrated TeamPass password management solution authentication with LDAP/Active Directory (AD) identity management software.
2. Prerequisites
In this article of integrating TeamPass password management solution with Active Directory (AD) domain, it is supposed that:
a. You have an LDAP/ Active Directory identity management software server in place up and running.
b. You have already installed TeamPass password management solution. Please refer to this link. Installing TeamPass Collaborative Passwords Manager on RHEL 7/CentOS 7
3. TeamPass Active Directory Authentication Setting
Login to your TeamPass password management solution with admin privilege user account. Then, navigate to “Settings” and click on “LDAP” tab. On “Enable users authentication through LDAP server”, select “Yes”.
On “LDAP server type” option, select “Windows / Active Directory” from the drop down list. On “LDAP account subffix for your domain” option, we need to put in @domain.com (whatever your domain is). In our case now the domain is “techspacekh.local”. On “LDAB base DN for your domain”, type in the distinguished name of of any Organization Unit that you want to gain access to TeamPass password management solution. On “LDAP domain controller” option, type in the IP address of your LDAP/ Active Directory identity management software server.
Now we can try to login to TeamPass password management solution using the user account/password in the LDAP/Active Directory identity management software.
We should be able to successfully login to TeamPass password management solution as the following.
The rest users within the same Organization Unit on LDAP/ Active Directory identity management software server should be able to successfully login to TeamPass password management solution web interface too.
7. Conclusion
That’s all about how to integrate your TeamPass password management solution to authentication with LDAP/Active Directory (AD) from Tech Space KH. Hopefully, you can find this guide informative and helpful about password management solution. If you have any questions or suggestions you can always leave your comments below. I will try all of my best to review and reply them.
