# 18.6 LDAP

<span style="color: rgb(224, 62, 45);">**WARNING: This feature has been added to the Single Sign-On configuration (refer to Chapter 18.11).**</span>

You can configure the LDAP server data in vtenext to synchronise user passwords. <span class="_fadeIn_m1hgl_8">Note </span><span class="_fadeIn_m1hgl_8">that </span><span class="_fadeIn_m1hgl_8">when </span><span class="_fadeIn_m1hgl_8">the </span><span class="_fadeIn_m1hgl_8">LDAP </span><span class="_fadeIn_m1hgl_8">authentication </span><span class="_fadeIn_m1hgl_8">method </span><span class="_fadeIn_m1hgl_8">is </span><span class="_fadeIn_m1hgl_8">used, </span>**<span class="_fadeIn_m1hgl_8">the </span><span class="_fadeIn_m1hgl_8">password </span><span class="_fadeIn_m1hgl_8">is </span><span class="_fadeIn_m1hgl_8">entirely </span><span class="_fadeIn_m1hgl_8">managed </span><span class="_fadeIn_m1hgl_8">by </span>**<span class="_fadeIn_m1hgl_8">**LDAP**, </span><span class="_fadeIn_m1hgl_8">and </span><span class="_fadeIn_m1hgl_8">therefore </span><span class="_fadeIn_m1hgl_8">the </span><span class="_fadeIn_m1hgl_8">standard </span><span class="_fadeIn_m1hgl_8">password </span><span class="_fadeIn_m1hgl_8">field </span><span class="_fadeIn_m1hgl_8">of </span><span class="_fadeIn_m1hgl_8">the </span><span class="_fadeIn_m1hgl_8">vtenext </span><span class="_fadeIn_m1hgl_8">user </span><span class="_fadeIn_m1hgl_8">is </span><span class="_fadeIn_m1hgl_8">hidden </span><span class="_fadeIn_m1hgl_8">because </span><span class="_fadeIn_m1hgl_8">it </span><span class="_fadeIn_m1hgl_8">is </span><span class="_fadeIn_m1hgl_8">not </span><span class="_fadeIn_m1hgl_8">used.</span>

For configuration from Settings, choose LDAP Server. Then fill in the LDAP server information as shown in the figure:

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When creating a user, you can search for the user once you have configured the LDAP server data:  
The connection with LDAP allows:

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- the pre-compilation of some user information (name, surname, email)
- the synchronisation of user access passwords