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Create a Contact Automatically

You can configure CA SDM to create a contact automatically from a corresponding LDAP user record whenever a new user logs in to CA SDM.

To enable this feature, install all of the required LDAP options plus the ldap_enable_auto option.

The contact record is automatically created as follows:

1. If a user logging in to CA SDM does not yet have a contact record, but the user’s login name exists in an LDAP record, the LDAP data is automatically imported and a contact record is created.
2. The automatically created contact record inherits the default access type security settings.
3. The contact can then be assigned an access type explicitly, or the access type can be assigned based on the user’s membership in an LDAP Group.

This process is completely transparent to the user, appearing as any other login session.