Use Oracle named connector to pass LDAP Authentication with OID to connect.

Published: 20 Aug 2020
Last Modified Date: 30 Jan 2022

Question

How to use Oracle named connector to pass LDAP Authentication with OID to connect.

Environment

Tableau Desktop 2020.2.4
Windows 10
Oracle

Answer

No Oracle.properties file is required. The same works if using Other JDBC.
The example below comes from a customer.

Example of Oracle named connector
ldap://xxxxx.xxxxxx.ie:389/,cn=xxxx,dc=xxxxx,dc=xx
Server = the LDAP URL
Service = <empty>
Port = <empty>
then User/password

Oracle Connection