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Mastering Palo Alto Networks - Second Edition
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If you are able to identify users on your network, you are also able to create security rules to allow or limit their access to certain resources. Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) can easily be enforced by binding LDAP groups to security policies, granting members of a certain organization within your company exclusive and reliable access to the resources they need wherever they go.
To get started, we need to create an LDAP profile so we can fetch group information. Go to Device | Server Profiles | LDAP and create a new profile. You will need one LDAP profile per domain in a multidomain or forest configuration.
There needs to be at least one server, but there can be up to four for redundancy. Don’t forget to change the port (636 should be the default, 389 for legacy unencrypted systems) if you’re going to use TLS encryption:
389 unencrypted, 636 for TLS).