Thank you for your quick answer. I am new to LDAP protocol so I may have expressed the situation wrong. But the only way I know the client gets the DN for a user is to bind as admin and get the user DN from the server. So I need the admin password at the client side. My question is; how can I authenticate a user entering username and password at the client side to an Apache Directory Server without using admin password? Tolga.
________________________________ Kimden: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bu kişinin yerine: Alex Karasulu Gönderilmiş: Per 25.09.2008 17:05 Kime: [email protected] Konu: Re: Automatic Authentication Hi Tolga, On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Tolga YURDAKUL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi, > > We are comparing automatic authentication procedures with Active Directory > and Apache Directory Server. > > With Active Directory; > Automatic authentication is simple; you define a user with a "logonname" > and use this logonname and a password for the bind procedure, which ends up > successful if these two values match with the values stored in the server. > Note that Active Directory is a NOS directory. AD intrinsically has a means to either automatically find or map domain\username to some user entry. I guess this is what you mean by "Automatic Authentication". This AD specific behavior is not part of the LDAP protocol. The protocol requires a DN for the bind DN. > With Apache Directory Server; > You have to use the users full Distinguished Name (DN) and a password for > the bind procedure. since the user at the client machine cannot know his/her > DN during the logon procedure, he/she enters a username and a password. The > JNDI bind code at the client machine first authenticates as admininstrator > to the server, searches for the user entry using the username as a filter, > if the user exists the DN is drawn to the client and used in the bind > procedure with the password the user entered before. > This is a workaround we have to use for automatic authentication. > We could create an AD compatibility mode that can be toggled in the configuration to allow ApacheDS to relax these protocol requirements: that is to take a none DN of the bind principal. This however would require some work on the protocol frontend and some other changes in the internals where bind requests are handled. To summarize we can support this but the man power right now is spread thin. > > Is there a way to authenticate automatically to Apache Directory Server > directly with a logonname and a password just like it is with Active > Directory without having to use DN for authentication? > The short answer is no. But as you see above it's a no brainer to implement this functionality. Alev > Tolga. > ###################################################################### > Dikkat: > > Bu elektronik posta mesaji kisisel ve ozeldir. Eger size > gonderilmediyse lutfen gondericiyi bilgilendirip mesaji siliniz. > Firmamiza gelen ve giden mesajlar virus taramasindan gecirilmekte, > guvenlik nedeni ile kontrol edilerek saklanmaktadir. Mesajdaki > gorusler ve bakis acisi gondericiye ait olup Aselsan A.S. resmi > gorusu olmak zorunda degildir. > > ###################################################################### > Attention: > > This e-mail message is privileged and confidential. If you are > not the intended recipient please delete the message and notify > the sender. E-mails to and from the company are monitored for > operational reasons and in accordance with lawful business practices. > Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and > do not necessarily represent the views of the company. > > ###################################################################### > ###################################################################### Dikkat: Bu elektronik posta mesaji kisisel ve ozeldir. Eger size gonderilmediyse lutfen gondericiyi bilgilendirip mesaji siliniz. Firmamiza gelen ve giden mesajlar virus taramasindan gecirilmekte, guvenlik nedeni ile kontrol edilerek saklanmaktadir. Mesajdaki gorusler ve bakis acisi gondericiye ait olup Aselsan A.S. resmi gorusu olmak zorunda degildir. ###################################################################### Attention: This e-mail message is privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please delete the message and notify the sender. E-mails to and from the company are monitored for operational reasons and in accordance with lawful business practices. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the company. ######################################################################
