[Info-vax] LDAP

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/7/2020 7:14 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> I have been asked if we can use LDAP against the corporate AD systems
> to authenticate our user logins to our OpenVMS system.
> 
> Currently on VSI/Alpha.
> 
> Anyone that have looked and/or tested these LDAP parts on Alpha?
> And if so, any thoughts, findings or something else worth to report?
> How does it work with a mixed LDAP/local password verification?
> 
> The users to be verified over LDAP/AD are those that have “personal”
> VMS accounts using their corporate signature. We also have “workgroup”
> accounts for the workplaces in the factory, and they are not in the AD.
> 
> The logins are done using plain telnet sessions from terminal emulators.
> No ssh here, if that matters in regard to LDAP…
> 
> Just starting to look at this…

I have never tried it.

But:

OpenVMS Guide to System Security
Managing System Access
Enabling External Authentication

sounds "relevant".

Arne