Used to replace the standard (Kerberos) “authenticator” in either LdapV3 user service, necessary if the LDAP system is not configured for Kerberos, or if the station is running on a “J9 Java VM” platform (JACE-2/4/5 series), or it is for an LDAPv2-based system. Properties for a connection user and password are used, and authentication mechanism choices are none, simple, CRAM-MD5, and DIGEST-MD5.

For more details, see Configuring the SimpleAuthenticator component.