Encyclopedia volume users and their properties map to attributes of an LDAP object. User properties include login name, password, e‑mail address, and default privilege template. For example, if Actuate user information maps to an LDAP inetorgperson object class, the user properties map to the LDAP inetorgperson object class attributes.

All LDAP user object attributes are string attributes. To specify multiple values, the LDAP user object attributes for a privilege template list and an Encyclopedia volume channel membership list must be multivalued. For example, to specify that a user belongs to multiple volume channels in LDAP, the user object Encyclopedia volume channel attribute must be multivalued with an Actuate channel name for each value.

The Encyclopedia volume login name is the user ID attribute of the LDAP user object, called the uid attribute. The volume password is the password attribute of the LDAP user object. When using an RSSE application, a user must log in to an Encyclopedia volume using a password.

To indicate that an Actuate user is a member of an Actuate role or an Actuate notification group, add the LDAP Actuate user as a member of the appropriate LDAP Actuate group or role.