Automatic new user creation

All users must exist in the LDAP directory on the LADP server. When a new employee joins your team, make sure you set them up in the LDAP server before they attempt to log in to a station. An appropriate user prototype that contains default properties for each type of user should exist in each station. (User prototypes allow you to group users, for example: manager, operator, engineer, etc.).

When a new user logs in to a station for the first time, the system automatically creates a new user account (component) in the station. It uses the user name that the person logged in with (the person’s user login name on the LDAP server) as the account name. The system populates (maps) this component’s properties from two sources:

It populates the properties the attr properties with attributes supplied from the LDAP server.
One of those attributes identifies the group within your organization to which the user belongs. This attribute is the Attr Prototype.
Niagara uses the Attr Prototype name to identify the user prototype in the station from which to populate the component’s local user properties, including user permissions, facets, Nav file, default Web and Mobile profiles, and other specific properties required by a station.
For Active Directory, this is the memberOf attribute.

NOTE: For the automatic populating of Niagara user properties to work, the name of the Attr Prototype in the LDAP server must exactly match the name of a user prototype in the station.
If the Attr Prototype does not match a user prototype name or this property is blank, the system uses the Default Prototype as its source.

An LDAP user may be a member of multiple groups.

Automatic new user creation

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