Aiming to provide its users with a relatively simple way of adding new user database sources, starting with version 3.0, AXIGEN implements LDAP authentication methods. The new authentication engine adds two new authentication methods for both plain and secure connections, namely DIGEST-MD5 and GSSAPI. For more details on the new methods, see Authentication and Encryption.

In order to enable LDAP authentication, system administrators need to first add and define a list LDAP Connectors. The connectors can be managed and configured via WebAdmin, on the UserDb tab. For details on how to add new LDAP Connectors, please see the corresponding section. A new section of corresponding to the UserDb tab has been added to the configuration file. Below you will find an example of how this section should be configured:

userDb = {
    logType = internal
    logLevel = 15
    logHost = 127.0.0.1:2000
    maxThreads = 5
    ldapConnectors = (
        {
            name = "ldap1"
            hosturl = "ldap://server1:389"
            bindDN = "CN=Martin Brown,OU=USERS,OU=CompanyName1,            
            OU=Companies,OU=CompanyName2,DC=server,DC=local"
            bindPass = "qwe123"
            searchBase = "OU=USERS,OU=CompanyName1,OU=Companies,OU=CompanyName2,
            DC=server,DC=local"
            searchPattern = "(sAMAccountName=%u)"
            passwordField = "givenName"
            axigenHostField = ""
            useFirst = yes
        }
    )
}

Two new parameters are also added for all services needing authentication: userDbConnectorType ( with hree available values: ldap | ldapbind | local) and userDbConnectorName. The services requiring authentication are SMTP In, POP3, IMAP, WebMail, POP3 Proxy and IMAP Proxy. For each of these services, the user database parameters can easily be configured using WebAdmin. The above described parameters are available on the General page of the tab corresponding to each service.

For detailed instructions on configuring these parameters using WebAdmin, see LDAP Connectors Page.