Overview

Pulse is able to optionally authenticate users against an existing LDAP server. To authenticate against LDAP, provide the details required to connect to your LDAP server and an LDAP filter to identify users. You may then add users that are authenticated via LDAP rather than pulse passwords.

Auto-adding Users

If you are managing a pulse™ server for a large number of users, it may not be practical for you to create accounts for all of them manually. Using the "auto add new users" option you can also allow new pulse™ users to be created automatically for users that authenticate successfully via LDAP. These users will be granted default permissions, along with any additional privileges they might receive via LDAP group integration (see below).

LDAP Group Integration

You can also, optionally, integrate the groups defined within your LDAP directory. By creating groups with matching names in your pulse™ server, and configuring group details appropriately, users can be automatically granted pulse™ group membership based on their LDAP group membership. Users added to pulse™ groups in this way will inherit the authorities granted to that pulse™ group. They will not, however, be added as members of the pulse™ group permanently (and thus will not show up as members in the pulse™ interface). Instead, their membership is reevaluated each time they log in, to keep pulse™ in sync with changes to the LDAP directory.