SonicOS 7.1 Users

LDAP User Settings

  1. Navigate to Device > Users > Settings > Accounting.
  2. Next to Configure LDAP, click Configure.

    The LDAP Configuration page is displayed.

  3. Under the Users & Groups tab, do the following:

    1. Select Allow only users listed locally allows the LDAP users also be present in theSonicWall local user database for logins.

    2. In the Default LDAP User Group drop-down select a default group on the SonicWall to which LDAP users will belong in addition to group memberships configured on the LDAP server.

    3. Click Import Users and select one of the following:

      • Select the LDAP server to import from

      • Import from all LDAP servers

    4. When importing users you can choose whether or not to include the domains in the imported user objects. Select one of the following:

      • Include the domains

      • No domains (imported user objects will match the named users in any domain)

    5. Click OK.

    6. Click Import User Groups and select one of the following:

      • Import User Groups from the LDAP directory

      • Auto-create groups for setting memberships by LDAP location (OU)

    7. When importing you can select where to import from. Select one of the following:

      • Select the LDAP server to import from

      • Import from all LDAP servers

    8. When importing users you can choose whether or not to include the domains in the imported user objects. Select one of the following:

      • Include the domains

      • No domains (imported user objects will match the named users in any domain)

    9. Click OK.

    10. Select Mirror LDAP user groups locally to mirror the LDAP user groups locally.

    11. In Mirror select one of the following:

      • All user groups on the LDAP server

      • Only groups that have member users or groups

    12. Enter the Refresh period (minutes) in minutes to refresh the mirroring and click Refresh.

    13. In Exclude groups in these sub-trees, add the user groups to be exclude in the sub-tress.

  4. Click Apply.

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