Shib / ldap search base

Farzan Qureshi fqureshi at rosmini.school.nz
Tue Oct 7 14:48:25 EDT 2014


Hi Dave,

Would you mind sharing your code in login.config that how you are defining
multiple search base?

I have to achieve same scenario.

Kind regards,

Farzan Qureshi
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Network Administrator & Helpdesk support
Rosmini College

On 8/10/2014 6:53 AM, "Dave Vernon" <dvernon at loyalistcollege.com> wrote:

> Thanks Kevin,
>
> I missed the login.config file!  That's what I needed.  I've updated my
> files and things are working great.
>
> Dave Vernon
> Technology Infrastructure Specialist
> dvernon at loyalistc.on.ca
> loyalistcollege.com
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces at shibboleth.net [mailto:users-bounces at shibboleth.net]
> On Behalf Of Kevin Foote
> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 1:33 PM
> To: Shib Users
> Subject: Re: Shib / ldap search base
>
>
>
> On Oct 7, 2014, at 10:25 AM, Dave Vernon <dvernon at loyalistcollege.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello again,
> >
> > As you know, yesterday was an exciting day for me, getting my first
> Shibboleth project running in my dev environment.  My users are held in a
> Microsoft Active Directory (2008 R2 DC's, 2003 functional level).  I was
> aware that the default search base is CN=Users so I had put my test user
> there.
> >
> > Today I went to expand that and I've run into issues.  I'd like to be
> > able to search from the root of my AD dc=ad,dc=loyalistcollege,dc=ca ,
> > so I edited my attribute-resolver.xml file on my IdP, restarted the
> > service, and tested.  I found that it wasn't working - users NOT in
> > the cn=users container were rejected by Shib, and my test user in the
> > cn=users container was authenticated by Shib but rejected by the
> > resource I'm protecting (remote_user not set)
>
> ....
>
>
> And a snip from my idp-process.log
>
> javax.security.auth.login.LoginException: Cannot authenticate dn, invalid
> dn
>
>
> Dave,
>
> In the IdP authentication and resolving attributes are two different
> functions.
> Both are handled by the vt-ldap package but through different means..
> Recall during setup you configured authentication in the "login.config"
> file while you configured attribute resolution in the
> "attribute-resolver.xml" file
>
> --------
> thanks
>  kevin.foote
>
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