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HCL Connections Invite – Issues when using TDS/SDS as User Repository

Milan MatejicLeave a comment

Take care when deploying the HCL Connections Invite application using the TDS (Tivoli Directory Server)/SDS (IBM Security Directory Server) as user repository. The following information from the official documentation is wrong:

The following value includes the LDAP property used to map the user in LDAP to their Profiles GUID. In an Active Directory environment, for example, the default property is objectGUID. Other known defaults are entryuuid (IBM Security Director Integrator, formerly TDI),…

<profiles-connector>
             <entry>
                  <attributes>
                       <attribute>
                            <value>${ldap:objectGUID}</value>

First, the value of the Attribute in the “selfregistration-config.xml” is missing, this would be: “<key>com.ibm.snx_profiles.base.guid</key>”.

By reading the documentation, you would set the <value> parameter to ${ldap:entryuuid}, if you do that, you would get the following error:

00000660 SelfRegistrat W   Failed to get all the required attributes! required: ‘{​${​ldap:entryuuid}​=entryuuid, ${​ldap:sn}​=sn, ${​ldap:cn}​=cn}​’, received attributes: ‘{​sn=sn: Mail, cn=cn: <e-mail>}​’

The correct value for the parameter, when using TDS/SDS, would be “${ldap:ibm-entryuuid}”, so you should endup with the following:

<attribute>
                    <key>com.ibm.snx_profiles.base.guid</key>
                    <value>${ldap:ibm-entryuuid}</value>
                    <type>text</type>
                </attribute>

Although there are some comments in the “selfregistration-config.xml” showing the right information, a few colleagues/friends including me found them to be a bit “misleading”. This will surely be corrected in the future.

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