I am connecting Magnolia (Enterprise Trial version) to our Active Directory
environment using
the ADAuthenticationModule. With the documentation on the site that works, I
can authenticate
 logins that way, although I have to add the AD groups manually to Magnolia.
Unfortunately
the way it currently authenticates the user is a bit typical, and will not
easily work in our enviroment.
The module currently uses the following procedure:
- Take accountname and search in AD the corresponding account.
- Use the CN from the account and try to authenticate in a loop making a DN
  using java.naming.security.principal entries

This works of course, unfortunately, we have quite a few OU's which would
result in a long list of java.naming.security.principal entries and
corresponding
number of authentication failures. This will probably get met in hot water
with
the AD admin's.

The question to me is, why doesn't the module use the DN from the account to
authenticate ? That would work directly, and would not require a 'try' loop.

Regards,
-- 
Rico Jansen ([email protected])
"You call it untidy, I call it LRU ordered" -- Daniel Barlow

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