As was mentioned in the other thread, the ability to do a query (potentially 
with a configurable username/password) in order to determine the user dn would 
be enormously useful.  This is a fairly standard way to do ldap authentication 
(typically the "username" is an attribute of the dn) and shiro should probably 
support it by default.

Thanks,
Jared

On 03/31/2011 12:53 PM, Les Hazlewood wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> The latest LDAP support currently is in the form of the JndiLdapRealm.
> 
> Unfortunately, this name has confused enough people - often they think
> they need to be using JNDI in order to use it (this is not the case -
> the JNDI API itself is used as an implementation strategy, and it does
> not require that anything be actually stored in JNDI, but that's
> beside the point).
> 
> Because of this, there is a Jira issue to rename it to something else
> for the next release (i.e. deprecate JndiLdapRealm and create a
> 'DefaultJndiRealm' or something like that).  When we do that, we have
> the opportunity to make it better and/or add features.
> 
> What is missing from Shiro's LDAP support that you would need in order
> to use it 'out-of-the-box' with your apps?  Ideally I'd like to get as
> much in there such that subclassing is rarely necessary.
> 
> All suggestions are welcome!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Les


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