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Script action: Setup LDAP session

Setting up a secure LDAP session

With this script action, the LDAP session is setup with the LDAP Server.

Figure 62: Script action: Setup LDAP session.

Since in subsequent script actions, a password of a user account is reset, the session must be setup using SSL encryption. This is a requirement from the Microsoft LDAP implementation. If SSL is not used, the search action will succeed, but the password reset action will always fail.

The LDAP session is setup using the values of the variables specified in project LdapAd_Init. The resulting LDAP session is stored in variable %LdapSession% as specified by property Ldap session.