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Description of problem:
When adding an external LDAP authentication source, provide a validate feature within the WebUI to verify settings used.  Similar to what CloudForms offers. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Sat 6 

How reproducible:
N/A

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Navigate to Administer > LDAP Authentication
2. Click New LDAP Source and enter desired values
3. Under the Account tab provide a validate feature

Actual results:
No validate feature today.  It is a guess on proper values to enter and know they are correct.

Expected results:
Provide a validate feature for account settings used for the LDAP server.

Additional info:
N/A

Since this issue was entered in Red Hat Bugzilla, the release flag has been
set to ? to ensure that it is properly evaluated for this release.

Created redmine issue http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/11703 from this bug

Upstream bug component is Provisioning

Upstream bug component is Users & Roles

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1144232 ***