The MLDAP ESM module (mldap_esm) enables the Security Facility to use LDAP servers as external security managers. It can communicate with a variety of LDAP servers including Active Directory (AD), and these can be on the same machine as your Enterprise Server installation or they can be remote.
Within the LDAP directory, you define users, user groups, resource classes, and resources, and these objects contain the attributes used to make security checks (for the Verify, Auth, and XAuth procedures). Micro Focus defines an LDAP schema for these objects and their attributes, but in many cases you can adapt an existing directory for at least part of this information, for example in order to reuse an existing repository of user information.
When it processes a security request, the module searches the configured LDAP repository for relevant rules and applies whatever it finds.
For full details of the MLDAP ESM, please refer to the chapter in the External Security Facility documentation.
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For information on the changing of user passwords when using the MLDAP ESM, please see Changing Passwords.