The driver supports the following authentication methods:
  • UserID/Password authenticates using the user name and password provided by the LDAP server.
  • No Authentication allows the user to connect without any authentication.
  • Kerberos authenticates the user using a trusted third-party authentication service, to verify user identities. Kerberos authentication can take advantage of the user name and password maintained by the operating system to authenticate users to the database or use another set of user credentials specified by the application.

By default, the driver is configured to use UserID/Password authentication via LDAP (AuthenticationMethod=UserIDPassword).