This page covers authenticating user credentials against LDAP or RADIUS servers. For information about using your own connector via API, see External Authentication via API Connector.
With these external authentication methods, MyQ does not use the internal MyQ PIN or password for user authentication, but instead authenticates users against an LDAP or RADIUS server. After the user enters their credentials during the authentication, the credentials are sent to be verified directly by the external server.
This authentication method requires an online connection to your LDAP or RADIUS server.
Enable Authentication via LDAP or RADIUS Server
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Register your LDAP or RADIUS authentication server. Do this in MyQ > Settings > Authentication Servers.
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Select to use your server for user authentication. You can do this either automatically during the user import from an LDAP server or a CSV file, or manually on the properties panels of individual users.
Set Authentication Server During User Import from CSV
When you import users from a CSV file, you have two options of selecting the authentication server for the users:
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You can select the Use authentication server option and select the server during the synchronization setup on the synchronization properties panel.
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You can specify the Authentication server for a particular user in the AUTHSERVER field of the CSV file. If the field is not empty, its value has priority over the value selected on the properties panel.
Set Authentication Server During User Import from an LDAP Server
During the user import from an LDAP server, you can select the Use authentication server option, to use the current synchronization source server for users authentication.
Unlike the Use authentication server setting for the import from a CSV file, which allows you to select the authentication server, the Use authentication server setting here gives you a single option – users will be authenticated against the LDAP server where they are imported from.
Set External Authentication Server Manually in User Properties
To manually select the external authentication option:
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Open the Users main tab and double-click the user. The user properties panel opens.
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Select the Use authentication server option. The Authentication server setting becomes available.
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On the Authentication server drop-down, select the server you want to use, and click Save.