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Overview

Active Directory / LDAP for staff is additional authentication plugin you can add to your HostBill. It allows your staff to authenticate in HostBill using their Active Directory / LDAP credentials. 

Activating the module

  1. If the plugin is included in your HostBill edition you can download it from your client portal.
  2. If the plugin is not included in your HostBill edition you can purchase it from our marketplace and then download it from the client area.
  3. Once you download the plugin extract it in the main HostBill directory.
  4. Go to Settings → Modules, find and activate Auth_LDAP plugin.
  5. Once the plugin is activated you will be directed to Settings→ Modules→ Plugins to configure LDAP authentication.

Module confiuration

For the AD/LDAP module the following configuration options are available:

  • Domain Controllers: Enter your AD server hostname or list of hostnames separated with a comma

  • Base DN: Enter your Base DN, for example: OU=Base,DC=acme,DC=org

  • Admin username: Your LDAP/AD admin username used to search for users/authenticate by default

  • Admin password: Your LDAP/AD admin password

  • Account prefix: If all accounts in your LDAP/AD are prefixed with some string, for ease of use you can prefix them here. When logging in your staff will not be required to enter this prefix

  • Account suffix: If all accounts when login are required to enter suffix (ie. login with admin@acme.org), you can enter it here, so staff will not need to enter it (ie. login only with "admin")

  • Admin account suffix: If your admin account username needs to be suffixed, you can also enter it here

  • LDAP port: enter your LDAP server port, default: 389

  • Admin template: When your staff log in into HostBill using LDAP, and they do not have related account in HostBill, this module will create it for them. Here you can enter username of staff that is already in HostBill as a template for privileges set.

  • Fallback login: When enabled, if LDAP server does not work or user is not found in LDAP, HostBill database will be used as a fallback login. Warning: Without this option enabled, if LDAP is not responding you can be locked out of your admin area. 

  • Store valid password: When fallback login is enabled, once staff login their valid password that authenticates against LDAP can be stored in HostBill database for future logins.

You can use Test Connection option to check if HostBill can connect.


AD/LDAP auth flow


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