[Xerte] Re: Xerte LDAP Authentication to AD Not Working

[Pat Lockley]

Hello,

If you've used XOT 1.7, you should be able to use the LDAP table in
the database to set up multiple hosts.

It's been there for ages, but not sure how widely used it is (i.e
expect potential flake)

Pat

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 4:28 PM, James Burns
<JBurns at kirkleescollege.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi all,
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> Issue partially resolved. I used an LDAP LAN trace and found out what the
> authentication issue was…..
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> The initial LDAP “proxy” bind was working ok, but then I found the issue :-
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> The subsequent LDAP Search was looking for a match on SAMAccountName, then
> requesting both “sn” and “given name” attributes (for logging I guess). This
> returned a successful response from the correct object.
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> However, as I had set the base search from the Domain Root, it was
> continuing the search, by  requesting the same information from other areas
> of AD it was not appropriate or have rights to access (under AD
> “configuration” partition, for example). If this came up against an error at
> this stage, it stopped the general login.
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> Therefore, when I constrained the search to the specific user account
> containers, the login worked fully for single host/basedn.
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> Now I have the issue of not being able to successfully specify multiple LDAP
> basedn’s or hosts, using $$$ as the delimiter (as seen in other thread). I
> have tried adding $$$ option to all ldap options with no success.
> Authentication only works to single host with single LDAP basedn at the
> moment. Has anyone any suggestions?
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> Regards
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> James
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