topic Re: LDAP UID/CN problem in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ldap-uid-cn-problem/m-p/167135#M120683 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>You'll need to tell Alfresco whether to use uid or cn in ldap-authentication.properties. I think it defaults to uid. So if your ldap server has your username stored as a cn rather than a uid, then you'll need to change any occurance to cn. So instead of something like uid=%s,ou=people,ou=domain,o=something it would be cn=%s,ou=people,ou=domain,o=something. That way its passing whatever you type in the login box as a cn instead of a uid.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Hope that makes sense.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:59:03 GMT ajmillar 2008-06-23T10:59:03Z LDAP UID/CN problem https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ldap-uid-cn-problem/m-p/167134#M120682 Hi allI've tried to authenticate to our Alfresco using our LDAP server. I've found success trough simple authentication hence we do not want to synch to our LDAP server in first place. The problem lies in the authentication it self. If I want to authenticate to the Alfresco using my UID, it doesn't Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:56:49 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ldap-uid-cn-problem/m-p/167134#M120682 macn0ble 2008-06-13T08:56:49Z Re: LDAP UID/CN problem https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ldap-uid-cn-problem/m-p/167135#M120683 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>You'll need to tell Alfresco whether to use uid or cn in ldap-authentication.properties. I think it defaults to uid. So if your ldap server has your username stored as a cn rather than a uid, then you'll need to change any occurance to cn. So instead of something like uid=%s,ou=people,ou=domain,o=something it would be cn=%s,ou=people,ou=domain,o=something. That way its passing whatever you type in the login box as a cn instead of a uid.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Hope that makes sense.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:59:03 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ldap-uid-cn-problem/m-p/167135#M120683 ajmillar 2008-06-23T10:59:03Z