Connecting to the LDAP using user short names Connecting to the LDAP The Soffid LDAP accepts the usual way to connect to the LDAP service using the distinguished name and password for the user. Additionally, one can use the uid attribute to login. Then for the user: dn: cn=user,ou=test,dc=soffid,dc=com cn: user givenName: John sn: Snow uid: jsnow userPassword: secret The user can use one of these two ways to login to the LDAP server: USER: cn=user,ou=test,dc=soffid,dc=com   PASSWORD: secret USER: uid=jsnow,dc=soffid,dc=com PASSWORD: secret