Terms used

1.Directory service – Any server that conforms to the X.500 set of standards and supports directory access protocol (LDAP) as part of the standard for interfacing and querying directory service information provided.

2.User - means any person who has access to the Application.

3.User account – data set about a user that is stored in the digital form.

4.UPN – User principal name, a unique user attribute in a directory service.

5.CN – Common Name of a user. The CN is an attribute that uniquely identifies an object within the directory service hierarchy. It is part of the Distinguished Name (DN), which serves as a full path to locate the object. The CN represents the name of the object itself in the directory.

6.OU – Organizational Unit. It is a container object that can contain different directory objects such as other organizational units, computers, printers, network objects, users and / or groups. OUs can also be nested within other OUs to create a hierarchical structure.

7.DC – Domain Component user to specify the domain hierarchy.

8.DN - Distinguished Name of the user in the directory service. In the Virola Directory Server settings you need to know the exact path to this user, for example CN=John Doe,OU=Virola Users,DC=domain,DC=virola,DC=io

9.Base DN - the base distinguished name, identifies the entry in the directory from which searches initiated by LDAP clients occur.

10.Attribute name for user authentication should be a unique attribute which will be used to identify users in a directory service. E.g. in MS Active Directory userPrincipalName (UPN) attribute is used for this purpose.