LDAP credential

Bo Lorentsen bl at moch.dk
Thu Sep 20 09:54:54 EDT 2012


On 2012-09-20 15:50, Chad La Joie wrote:
> Proper LDAP password authentication is a two step process.  1)
> Connect, possibly with service specific credentials, and look up a
> user's DN (their primary key in a LDAP directory) based on some
> entered data.  2) Reconnect to the directory using the user's DN and
> the entered password.
Ok, more LDAP skills are missing ... sorry, I need to set credential in 
the users in LDAP and it will work.

> Attribute fetching and processing is a wholly separate affair and does 
> not affect authentication in any way. 
Perfect, just wanted to be sure ...

So close to a minimal working solution, yet so far :-)

thanks again ...

/BL


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