Hello, It is clear for me now, how authentication is done using ldap, in Jasper. But there is one thing I am not still satisfied with. I went through the docs and forums also, but I could not find answer for this one question. I have the users in my active directory like this: dn: cn=Mohan Rao, ou=Engineering, dc=sigmainfo, dc=net sAMAccountName: mohanrao (This is the name I use for logging into my sctive directory). When I created a user in Jasper with the name 'Mohan Rao' (as in cn), I could successfully login. But when I create a user 'mohanrao', I am not able to login. Is there a way I could create a user 'mohanrao' and login to Jasper with that name? Can any one tell me how to change the parameters in applicationContext-security.xml file in order to work like this? Thanks a lot, Mohan.