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Overview

LDAP Proxy Plugin

Download

The Ironchip LDAP Proxy service can be found in the Plugins section of Ironchip’s Location Based Authentication administration dashboard.

Installation

To install the LDAP Proxy, follow these steps:

Move the downloaded executable file to a system folder suitable for running services.
Call the executable with the “configuration flag”, in order to generate the default configuration file:
```
ldap-windows.exe configuration
```
Once the configuration file has been set up (follow the configuration section), install the service as follows:
```
ldap-windows.exe service install
```
Once installed, the service can be started:
```
ldap-windows.exe service start
```

Configuration

The configuration file can be modified at any time, in order for the changes to apply, restart the service:

ldap-windows.exe service restart

The configuration file has the following configurable properties:

Path: The configuration path, defaulting to the /.json
LDAP:
- server_address: the FQDN of the LDAP domain controller.
- server_port: the port of the LDAP domain controller.
- protected_group: the group name that is protected using Ironchip LBAuth.
- network: the communication scheme used by the client, currently only “tcp” is supported.
- base_dn: the base DN for the Proxy to be attached to.
Proxy:
- server_address: the address in which the proxy will be serving.
- server_port: the port in which the proxy will be providing service.
- network: the communication scheme used by the proxy, currently only “tcp” is supported.
Ironchip:
- ironchip_api_key: the API key generated for the Ironchip Service associated.
- ironchip_host: the direction in which your assigned Ironchip environment is running, usually: “https://api.ironchip.com”

An example configuration file:

{
    "ldap": {
        "dirección_servidor": "localhost",
        "server_port": 389,
        "tls_enable": false,
        "key_file": "",
        "cert_file": "",
        "time_out_seconds": 5,
        "red": "tcp",
        "base_dn": ""
    },
    "proxy": {
        "server_address": "0.0.0.0",
        "server_port": 4389,
        "tls_enable": false,
        "key_file": "",
        "cert_file": "",
        "protected_group": "",
        "time_out_seconds": 5,
        "network": "tcp"
    },
    "ironchip": {
        "ironchip_api_key": "",
        "ironchip_host": "<https://api.ironchip.com>"
    }
}

Monitoring

The running Ironchip LDAP Proxy register it’s events in the windows event viewer, it is registered as “Ironchip LDAP Proxy”.

Uninstalling

In order to uninstall the service, use this command:

ldap-windows.exe service uninstall

Updated: November 25, 2022

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