topic Re: ldap auth bind details in Alfresco Archive

ldap auth bind details

jalal — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:15:57 GMT

I'm trying to get LDAP auth to work (with Active Directory).LDAP sync works fine and pulls in a list of users, but LDAP auth quietly won't authorize anyone.The default principal and password are set in the ldap-authentication.properties file, but there is a comment there that this is only used for l

Re: ldap auth bind details

andy — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:53:19 GMT

Hi

Have you looked at the wiki page?

Are you using simple authentication - then you will have to build the user DN - see the examples.
If this is not possible you could use JAAS/Kerberos athentication or NTLM to authenticate or set up another LDAP context to use DIGEST-MD5.
All will work with LDAP sync if set up correctly.

Andy

Re: ldap auth bind details

jalal — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:20:19 GMT

Hi Andy

I ended up using JAAS/Kerberos which works very well. I'd been put off at first as it sounded complicated and I'm more familiar with LDAP.