Hi Matt,   assuming you want to enable external authentication to LDAP in Cloudera Manager. Please find steps in the product documentation here for 6.x and here for 7.x  The steps you listed seem about right and should work. I suggest to verify if CM makes use of this JDK in the CM -> Support -> About page, and if necessary follow the steps in documentation to explicitly set the -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore and -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword startup properties. ... View more