Forum OpenACS Development: Re: ns_ldap with bind procedure

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5: Re: ns_ldap with bind procedure (response to 4)
Posted by Orzenil Silva Junior on 01/04/08 01:27 PM
Tom,

i'm trying to use ns_ldap to enable the AOLserver to connect to the LDAP server. In my setup i'm using OpenACS auth-ldap package to create an authority to authenticate users using the LDAP authentication mechanism.

I downloaded nsldap module from AOLserver sourceforge repository but when i try to authenticate in my openacs system against LDAP following message is logged by AOLserver

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Error: auth::authenticate: error invoking authentication driver for authority_id = xxxx: ns_ldap: Unknown command "bind": should be bouncepool, connected, disconnect, gethandle, host, password, poolname, releasehandle, or user
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This post https://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=277179 tells that based on my setup i need a patched version of nsldap aolserver module with bind command support.

This quick howto here https://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=937445
points to the same link above to download the patched version.

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6: Re: ns_ldap with bind procedure (response to 5)
Posted by Orzenil Silva Junior on 01/04/08 06:50 PM
ok, authentication with LDAP is working now using nsldap from aolserver cvs.

Just set BindAuthenticationP parameter from //yourhost/acs-admin/auth/authority-parameters?authority_id=XXX as empty (instead 1, as described in howto https://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=937445).

With this set up ns_ldap try to retrieve the password from LDAP (attribute: userPassword) and compare it against the password provided by user in LDAP openacs authority.