[Netdisco] AD authentication - LDAP config

[Christopher D. <Chr...@us...>]

Hi everyone, here is something I noticed regarding configuration of LDAP.

Using Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.3, I tried to use the following ldap config.

ldap:
    servers:
         - '10.x.x.x'
      user_string: '%USER%@FQDN'
      opts:
      version: 3
       debug: 0

This failed and I kept on getting the error of "Unable to parse the configuration file:", with "did not find expected key".

Apparently it did not like the user_string;
                user_string: '%USER%@FQDN'
                (I try using '%USER%@DOMAIN' which I found worked in my CentOS 7.8 dev box, but this too failed)

I also tried changing to the following, but the same error appeared;
                user_string: 'DOMAIN\%USER%'

After search and reading this mailing list (thank you), I found this and it worked;
ldap:
   servers: [10.xx.xx.xx, 10.xx.xx.xy, 10.xx.xx.xz]
   user_string: 'DOMAIN\%USER%'

I hope that this will be of help to someone else having their own issues with ldap.

Regards
Chris
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