About LDAP

The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is an open, vendor-neutral, industry standard application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services over an Internet Protocol (IP) network.

A common usage of LDAP is to provide a "single sign on" where one password for a user is shared between many services. LDAP authentication can be configured via user interface for Smile login services.

Smile will use the LDAP server for verifying the password only. To be successfully authenticated, the Smile Access subscription still needs to exist in Smile, and the authorisation will still be performed by Smile. Permissions applied will be the ones defined by the subscription, not taken from LDAP. Smile will not do internal authentication, so the password of the Smile subscription will be ignored.