<ahref="https://www.linkedin.com/"class="urlextern"title="https://www.linkedin.com/"rel="nofollow">LinkedIn</a> is a professional social network. It uses <ahref="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OAuth2"class="urlextern"title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OAuth2"rel="nofollow">OAuth2</a> protocol to allow applications to reuse its own authentication process (see <ahref="https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/oauth2"class="urlextern"title="https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/oauth2"rel="nofollow">https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/oauth2</a>).
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You need to register a new application on LinkedIn to get an application ID and a secret. See <ahref="https://www.linkedin.com/developer/apps/"class="urlextern"title="https://www.linkedin.com/developer/apps/"rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/developer/apps/</a> on how to do that.
In Manager, go in <code>General Parameters</code>><code>Authentication modules</code> and choose LinkedIn for authentication module.
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Then, go in <code>LinkedIn parameters</code>:
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<liclass="level1"><divclass="li"><strong>Authentication level</strong>: authentication level for this module.</div>
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<liclass="level1"><divclass="li"><strong>Client ID</strong>: the application ID you get</div>
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<liclass="level1"><divclass="li"><strong>Client secret</strong>: the corresponding secret</div>
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<liclass="level1"><divclass="li"><strong>Searched fields</strong>: Fields requested on People endpoint</div>
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<liclass="level1"><divclass="li"><strong>Field containing user identifier</strong>: Field that will be used as main user identifier in <abbrtitle="LemonLDAP::NG">LL::NG</abbr></div>