Strange problem authoricing new users

[Arjuna Scagnetto]

Shibboleth use vt-ldap

you can donwload their code and use some "first aid" tools like
ldapsearch, same name but it's in java.

Here you find everything
http://code.google.com/p/vt-middleware/wiki/vtldap

hope it helps.

Arjuna

On 08/08/2011 17.55, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I had a strange problem authorizing users via LDAP today. Maybe someone
> already know where the problem is located.
> 
> Unfortunately there are several; sometimes very old; versions involved:
> Shibboleth: 2.1.5
> LDAP-Tools: 2.4.20
> OpenLDAP1: 2.3.32 (SLES 10)
> OpenLDAP2: 2.4.21 (Ubuntu lucid)
> 
> The query is done from Shibboleth via OpenLDAP1 (and meta backend) to
> OpenLDAP2. When querying new users (I do not know when this start, so
> please do not ask) I get no query result back when searching with
> shibboleth. But if I do the same query with ldapsearch (and the same
> flags used by shibboleth) from the same host I successful get the
> requested account. So LDAP is not broken.
> 
> After several searching I switched to direct using OpenLDAP2 and
> everything worked.
> 
> This sounds to me that this is somewhat as a compatibility problem
> between some of my components. The problem is that I do not know which
> components did trigger the problem.
> 
> Is there any special a java LDAP query do that is not done by ldapsearch
> or vis versa? Or do anybody have some sort of test tool to test the
> problem the same way as shibboleth do but without all the stuff around?
> 
> Feel free to ask. But please do not send double mails; I am subscribed
> to this list.
> 
> Regards
>    Klaus
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