ABAP only Authentication Against LDAP?

[Former Member]

We are trying to determine the level of effort needed to have our BI systems authenticate against the LDAP when they login via the GUI and when the execute bookmarks and queries from their role menu. I have configured the transaction LDAP to point at our Directory Service, but am not having much success. The SAP logins are not actually the unique identifier we are know by in the LDAP, which is complicating the process, we need lookup functionality to accomodate this. The vast majority of documentation I can find always goes back to the Java side's UME. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

John

[Former Member]

Did you ever figure out how to authenticate ABAP AS against LDAP data source or find additional information on it? I'm having the same problem with all docs pointing to Netweaver Java.

[Former Member]

Hello

What kind of problem do you have? After you have configured LDAP, you need to set the LDAP mapping of which fields in LDAP you want mapped to UME attributes in the ABAP.

Do the following:

1: Create an RFC for the LDAP Configuration

2: Configure the LDAP Connector (using the RFC from step 1)

3: Create a user in the AD for connection

4: Define this user as LDAP System user

5: Create a LDAP Server (using the user defined in step 4)

6: Define mapping of attributes

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_sm32/helpdata/en/8d/49e13b6e429a72e10000000a114084/content.htm

7: Run the report RSLDAPSYNC_USER to synch the users

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_sm32/helpdata/en/88/60e33a10d53e36e10000000a11402f/content.htm

You BI system will not authenticate true LDAP, but to its own UME where the users are synched from a LDAP source.