OMERO.webadmin User Guide

4.20. How to search and add new users from Ldap?

The different possibility to add new users is to search them in Ldap server if Ldap server was configured on omero.properties.
Example of omero.properties configuration file:

  • omero.ldap.config=true/false 'turn on/off plugin'
  • omero.ldap.urls= 'ldap://host:port'
  • omero.ldap.username= 'if log in to Ldap require special user. Not required'
  • omero.ldap.password= 'for above user'
  • omero.ldap.base= 'place from where starts subtree'
  • omero.ldap.groups= 'groups'
  • omero.ldap.attributes= 'attributes'
  • omero.ldap.values= 'values of attributes'

To search and add new users click on the Search button in the toolbar to display the search page (see Figure 4.1-2).

OMERO.webadmin search in Ldap
 
Figure 4.20-1 : Search in Ldap.

Select box contains various parameters for searching on Ldap, what is configured on web.xml (see Section 3). When searching parameter was specified and value was set, click search.

Result of searching appear below (see Figure 4.20-2).

OMERO.webadmin search results
 
Figure 4.20-2 : Search results.

NB
The Actions column includes checkboxes that allow us to specify which of users should be imported. If user has empty field it means that the user with this username or email address exists in the database.

Click in the Actions column to select users to import. Select the import button. If the Import is successful the displey will return to the Experimenters page (see Figure 4.1-2).