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Configure Ranger authentication for LDAP

How to configure Ranger to use LDAP for user authentication.

  1. In Cloudera Manager, select Ranger, then click the Configuration tab.
  2. To display the authentication settings, type "authentication" in the Search box. You may need to scroll down to see all of the LDAP settings.
  3. Configure the following settings for LDAP authentication, then click Save Changes.
    Property Description Default value Sample values
    Admin Authentication Method The Ranger authentication method. UNIX LDAP

    Admin LDAP Auth Group Search Base

    ranger.ldap.group.searchbase

    		 The LDAP group search base. N/A (|(CN=Hdp_users)(CN=Hdp_admins))

    Admin LDAP Auth Group Search Filter

    ranger.ldap.group.searchfilter

    		 The LDAP group search filter. N/A

    Admin LDAP Auth URL

    ranger.ldap.url

    		 The LDAP server URL N/A ldap://localhost:389 or ldaps://localhost:636

    Admin LDAP Auth Bind User

    ranger.ldap.bind.dn

    		 Full distinguished name (DN), including common name (CN), of an LDAP user account that has privileges to search for users. This user is used for searching the users. This could be a read-only LDAP user. N/A cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com

    Admin LDAP Auth Bind User Password

    ranger.ldap.bind.password

    		 Password for the account that can search for users. N/A Secret123!

    Admin LDAP Auth User Search Filter

    ranger.ldap.user.searchfilter

    		 The LDAP user search filter. N/A

    Admin LDAP Auth Base DN

    ranger.ldap.base.dn

    		 The Distinguished Name (DN) of the starting point for directory server searches. N/A dc=example,dc=com

    Admin LDAP Auth Group Role Attribute

    ranger.ldap.group.roleattribute

    		 The LDAP group role attribute. N/A cn

    Admin LDAP Auth Referral

    ranger.ldap.referral*

    		 See below. ignore follow | ignore | throw

    Admin LDAP Auth User DN Pattern

    ranger.ldap.user.dnpattern

    		 The LDAP user DN. N/A uid={0},ou=users,dc=xasecure,dc=net

    * There are three possible values for ranger.ldap.ad.referral: follow, throw, and ignore. The recommended setting is follow.

    When searching a directory, the server might return several search results, along with a few continuation references that show where to obtain further results. These results and references might be interleaved at the protocol level.

    • When this property is set to follow, the AD service provider processes all of the normal entries first, and then follows the continuation references.

    • When this property is set to throw, all of the normal entries are returned in the enumeration first, before the ReferralException is thrown. By contrast, a "referral" error response is processed immediately when this property is set to follow or throw.

    • When this property is set to ignore, it indicates that the server should return referral entries as ordinary entries (or plain text). This might return partial results for the search. In the case of AD, a PartialResultException is returned when referrals are encountered while search results are processed.