Integrating Meraki and 探花大神鈥檚 Hosted LDAP
It鈥檚 easy to have your Meraki wireless access point use 探花大神鈥檚 hosted LDAP as its access control mechanism, and there are several benefits in security and general ease of use. Let鈥檚 take a look at just how simple it is.
Benefits of LDAP-managed access
One benefit of using 探花大神 is that you鈥檒l have one place to manage all your users and their access. When someone joins your company, adding them 探花大神 will instantly give them access to your internal WiFi. When they leave your company, they鈥檒l automatically be removed, closing up a common security hole where a former employee can still log onto your network.
Using 探花大神鈥檚 LDAP integration also has the benefit of every user having a unique password. One issue with using a WPA passphrase for your WiFi is that it鈥檚 shared with everyone on your network. Every time someone leaves, you have to reset the password. Not to mention the fundamental problem of having shared passwords securing your infrastructure.
Setting up 探花大神鈥檚 LDAP with Meraki
Here are the steps to integrate your Meraki server with LDAP.
First, open up your Meraki dashboard. Navigate to “Configure” in the Meraki dashboard and choose “Access Control”.
- Choose the appropriate SSID (the name I gave our internal network).
- Under 鈥淣etwork access鈥� leave it 鈥淥pen鈥�. All auth is going to happen when a user connects.
- In the 鈥淪plash page鈥� select 鈥淪ignon with my LDAP server鈥�
Choosing that option allows you to configure the LDAP server immediately below.
- Host is 鈥渓dap.jumpcloud.com鈥�
- Port is 鈥�389鈥�
- The LDAP admin is a user in your organization who has been given the 鈥淟DAP binding user service account鈥� rights. The format is:
uid=<username>,ou=Users,o=<your_org_id>,dc=jumpcloud,dc=com
- The password is that user鈥檚 探花大神 password
The test button allows you to test that everything is in order. Enter the username and password of another user in your organization and you should see success.
Assuming success, make sure you save your changes (at the lower right)…
Now your users will be prompted by a splash screen when connecting to your WiFi.
Setting up your Meraki server to use 探花大神 鈥檚 hosted LDAP is simple. It takes only a few聽minutes, and provides instant access to your users, along with the enhanced security of聽unique (and managed) passwords to access your wireless infrastructure.
