First of all, please forgive me for how basic this question is. I'm testing out gluu server as a solution for centralized authentication for my nonprofit org's various apps. I have gluu 4.0 installed and running on Debian 9, and it's running as expected on an Amazon EC2 instance. At the moment for testing I have all ports open for the instance. I also carefully followed the installation procedure outlined in the gluu documentation, and was able to get it up and running without any errors (kudos!). I logged into the frontend and created a new user, and logged in with the test user to verify it works. Because my experience is authenticating via an LDAP server, that's what I set out to do; however, it has become clear to me that that isn't really how the gluu server is intended to be used. My question then is, is it possible to use "Basic authentication" (that is, a simple LDAP bind authentication) for external apps, or is this not how gluu is intended to be used? For example, I can extrapolate that the LDAP basedn being ou=people,o=gluu and a binddn using cn=directory manager, but whereas the LDAPS port is not opened up during configuration, it seems that this is not really intended usage. I've poured over the documentation and it doesn't seem this use scenario was envisioned. Am I correct, or am I missing something? Thanks so much. And thanks for supporting open source.