Topic: Query ldap server with apache2?

[chars]

Hi,

I am working on a project to use ldap authentication with apache2 in Windows. The basic authentication worked fine, but for ldap, apache server will popup the authentication to ask the login name and password.
I have login name but there is no password for ldap. I got errors, when I checked the error.log. The error was:
auth_ldap authenticate: user authentication failed. Thank you to provide me a clue please and here is my ldap part of conf:
By the way, I don't have a .htaccess file for "the-dir/ldap-test" directory.

<Directory "the-dir/ldap-test">
SetHandler ldap-status
AuthName "LDAP Test"
AuthType Basic
AuthBasicProvider ldap
AuthzLDAPAuthoritative on
AuthLDAPURL ldap://ldap-server/base-dn?uid=jhon
require ldap-user jhon
</Directory>

[chars]

I add a BindDN and password for the ldap conf part of httpd.conf, but have
error : [User not found][No Such Object]. Before this error was error of
[LDAP: ldap_simple_bind_s() failed] and that was a binding error.
I can view the ldap users with "ldap browser/editor" without a problem with anonymous bind. Can you tell what's wrong with my restrict bind
in my conf file please?

<Location /ldap-test/>
SetHandler ldap-status
AuthName "LDAP Test"
AuthType Basic
AuthBasicProvider ldap
AuthzLDAPAuthoritative on
AuthLDAPBindDN "cn=proxyAgent,ou=profile,dc=test,dc=com"
AuthLDAPPassword test1
AuthLDAPURL ldap://ldap-server/cn=proxyAgent,ou=profile,dc=test,dc=com?uid=jhon
require valid-user
</Location>

[chars]

It is done with a help of my friend.
and AuthzLDAPAuthoritative should be off for
require valid-user

[Brian]

Pardon my ignorance, so I only ask because I do have interest in what you are discussing here. Is what you are doing is authenticating against an Active Directory user account?

Could you in general terms explain the scenerio. I find it very interesting the combintation of Windows and AD, along with Apache and web access specifically for corporate environments. I can imagine some very useful functions combining PHP, Perl, Python and Apache in a Windows Server environment.

Thanks.

[chars]

It is interested in working it through.

What I did is to use a LDAP server in UNIX as user directory service and link it with apache web server as ldap authentication.
You can use Active Directory to do the same thing too. Because the Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments and it follows the fules of the ldap protocol.

[wmueller]

hallo

may i ask what apache version you use and what linux?

i try to do the same thing and have no success on it (apache2.0.x).

in my case i want to use ldap auth against an active directory to grant access to a svn repository. but i can imagine billions of use cases for this.

thanks