LDAP User Settings

1. Navigate to Device > Users > Settings > Authentication.
2. Next to Configure LDAP, click Configure.

   The LDAP Configuration page is displayed.

3. Select the Users & Groups tab and complete the following steps:

   1. Enable Allow only users listed locally.

      This ensures that LDAP users are present in the SonicWall local user database and can sign in.

   2. In the Default LDAP User Group drop-down, select the SonicWall group to which LDAP users are assigned, in addition to any group memberships defined on the LDAP server.

   3. Click Import Users, and select one of the following options:

      • Select the LDAP server to import from

      • Import from all LDAP servers

   4. Select the way domains are handled for imported users:

      • Include the domains

      • No domains (imported users match users with the same name in any domain)

   5. To complete the user import, click OK.

   6. Click Import User Groups, and select one of the following:

      • Import User Groups from the LDAP directory

      • Auto-create groups for setting memberships by LDAP location (OU)

   7. Select the source for importing user groups:

      • Select the LDAP server to import from

      • Import from all LDAP servers

   8. Select the way domains are handled for imported user groups:

      • Include the domains

      • No domains (imported groups match groups with the same name in any domain)

   9. To complete the group import, click OK.

   10. Select Mirror LDAP user groups locally to synchronize LDAP user groups with SonicWall.

   11. In Mirrorsection, select one of the following options:

       • All user groups on the LDAP server

       • Only groups that have member users or groups

   12. To specify how often the LDAP groups are synchronized, enter the Refresh period (minutes), then click Refresh.

   13. In Exclude groups in these sub-trees, specify the LDAP group sub-trees that you want to exclude from synchronization.

4. Click Apply to save the configuration.