Server Error AUTH_LDAP_USER_SEARCH must be an LDAPSearch instance.

[BraydenCrumz]

Trying to setup Netbox here. Seems like a really cool tool, if I could ever get it working properly due to operator error.

I am able to get a login portal when I host the server insecurely -- I have it set to where you must sign in before seeing anything. When I enter a username and password for the super user, or any text, here is what I get.

<class 'django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured'>

AUTH_LDAP_USER_SEARCH must be an LDAPSearch instance.

Python version: 3.10.4
NetBox version: 3.2.8

Here is two parts of my config file, note that name, user and passwords have been changed.

DATABASE = {
    'NAME': 'myName',         # Database name
    'USER': 'myUsername',     # PostgreSQL username
    'PASSWORD': 'myPass',     # PostgreSQL password
    'HOST': 'localhost',      # Database server
    'PORT': '',               # Database port (leave blank for default)
    'CONN_MAX_AGE': 300,      # Max database connection age

# Remote authentication support
REMOTE_AUTH_ENABLED = True
REMOTE_AUTH_BACKEND = 'netbox.authentication.LDAPBackend'
REMOTE_AUTH_HEADER = 'HTTP_REMOTE_USER'
REMOTE_AUTH_AUTO_CREATE_USER = True
REMOTE_AUTH_DEFAULT_GROUPS = []
REMOTE_AUTH_DEFAULT_PERMISSIONS = {}

I would appreciate any help/advice you all have to offer. Thanks.

[candlerb]

The part of your configuration which is broken appears to be the LDAP configuration, i.e. ldap_config.py, but you haven't shown that.

For more info see https://docs.netbox.dev/en/stable/installation/6-ldap/