Providing Password Information - Cisco IP Communicator Administration Manual

Chapter 4 Configuring the Application

Providing Password Information

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Provide users with a user name and password for the following
Cisco IP Communicator settings:
Directories—Provide a user ID and password to users to input from the
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Cisco IP Communicator right-click menu: Preferences > Directories. Users
should enter the credentials for the directory account of the directory that will
be searched. If more than one directory will be searched, the credential
information must be the same for all of the them. This information needs to
be provided to users.
Users must enter Directories credential information if:
You did not input global credentials in the Quick Search configuration
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file (LdapDirectories.xml) and users want to use Quick Search to search
a corporate directory. (You can configure LdapDirectories.xml with the
Directory Wizard, which is available from the Cisco IP Communicator
Administration Tool. See the
page 5-7 for details.)
Users want to use Quick Search to search a personal directory. (Personal
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directories are set up to use "user based authentication" and cannot use
global credentials.)
• User Options—Provide a user ID and password to users to input from the
Cisco IP Communicator right-click menu: Preferences > User. The
credentials must be the user's Cisco CallManager credentials. Users might
already know this information, or you may need to provide the information to
them.
Users must enter User credential information if:
Users want to access their User Options web pages.
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Users want to use Quick Search to search a personal directory. (In this
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case, only the user ID field is required. This field determines where the
personal directory is located within the Cisco CallManager directory.)
Related Topics
Running the Cisco IP Communicator Administration Tool, page 2-14
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An Overview of Post-Installation Configuration Tasks, page 4-2
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• Helping Users with Post-Installation Configuration Tasks, page 4-19
Cisco IP Communicator Administration Guide for Cisco CallManager
Understanding Post-Installation Configuration Tasks
"Configuring Quick Search" section on
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