When setting up a LDAP / AD connection in OBIEE, you sometimes want to login as different users to verify if all the parameters are being extracted correctly. This can be a challenge because we do not know the passwords of the users in this case.
To get around this, we can initialize the password for a manual initialization block so all users will validate against a static password, but still get all other attributes from LDAP.
To do this, we need to remove the USER variable from LDAP and create a new init block to return USER from a static initialization block as displayed below. All the other variables (DISPLAYNAME, ROLES, GROUPS) can continue to be populated by the LDAP initialization block.
