E.g. my login user on the Microsoft network is dlwhitehurst .  When I
use "dlwhitehurst" in the CAS login, it's ultimately passed to AD as
the sAMAccountName=%u

Also, if you have an expert for AD, it would be beneficial to work
together with that individual.


David

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Michael A Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I think I might have tracked down the cause of my problems with CAS and
> AD. The connection context side is ok now. I am using a bind security
> context with a service account. It looks like an issue now with user
> attributes being populated to AD from my IDM system, so it's not
> necessarily a CAS issue anymore. Worth reporting though I think.
> I need some help tracking down which attributes I should be using. From
> IDM I am populating the following in AD:
>
> givenName
> sn
> title
> eduPersonAfilliation
> eduPersonCourseName
> mail
> userPassword
> cn
>
> I am populating the cn and assumed this would be the userid to be used
> for CAS and the userPassword, as the password in CAS. However this isn't
> the case. I created a test user from the AD console and this user is
> authenticating ok in CAS. For this user the userid is a concatenation of
> the firstname then initials then a period/fullstop and then the
> lastname. Then the password is the password that I set in the AD console
> user creation wizard.
>
> This combination works ok for this user. I have tried the same format of
> login credentials for my other users, but not getting any success. It
> seems the Username or Password or both not being populated in the same
> way based on my attributes by my IDM system. I am quite new to AD in
> general so I am not sure where to start as yet on investigating this
> issue.
>
> Comments appreciated.
>
> Regards
>
> Mike Jones
>
> Identity Management Systems Administrator
> IT Systems
> University of Hull
>
> Tel: 01482 465549
> Email: [email protected]
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marvin Addison [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 27 May 2009 15:14
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [cas-user] Problem authenticating with CAS to Active
> Directory
>
> Again, I believe it would be helpful to clarify a few things:
>
>  - Administrator is a service account in this case.  (It is by all
> measures a poor choice, but meets the criteria.)
>  - The username/password properties in your contextSource bean are
> _not used_ with the fast bind handler.
>  - If you need to use a service account to search for users, you need
> to use BindLdapAuthenticationHandler.
>
> If all the users you wish to authenticate have DNs like
> [email protected],OU=Identities,DC=ExampleOrganization,DC=local,
> then you should be able to use FastBindLdapAuthenticationHandler as
> follows:
>
> <bean
>  class="org.jasig.cas.adaptors.ldap.FastBindLdapAuthenticationHandler"
>>
>  <property
>    name="filter"
>    value="cn=%u,ou=Identities,dc=ExampleOrganization,dc=local" />
>  <property name="contextSource" ref="contextSource" />
> </bean>
>
> <bean id="contextSource"
>
> class="org.jasig.cas.adaptors.ldap.util.AuthenticatedLdapContextSource">
>  <property name="urls">
>    <list>
>      <value>ldap://198.168.0.1</value>
>    </list>
>  </property>
>  <property name="baseEnvironmentProperties">
>    <map>
>      <entry key=java.naming.security.authentication" value="simple" />
>    </map>
>  </property>
> </bean>
>
> (Note org.springframework.ldap.core.support.LdapContextSource replaces
> org.jasig.cas.adaptors.ldap.util.AuthenticatedLdapContextSource as of
> CAS 3.3.2.)
>
> Assuming [email protected] is a valid CN, you should be able to
> authenticate with that username.
>
> Testing with LDP is the way to go.  If you can bind with a DN in LDP,
> the same settings will work in CAS.  Spend your time testing with LDP
> until you get a DN/password pair that works, then come back to CAS and
> test.
>
> M
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