Anonymous LDAP binding

[simon]

Dear Alfresco,

I'm evaluating Alfresco 3.0 SP1 Enterprise with LDAP synchronization. Our LDAP supports anonymous binding, this works fine in our current 2.1 Enterprise installation. With the new version I need to specify the ldap.authentication.java.naming.security.principal and  ldap.authentication.java.naming.security.credentials.

Did Alfresco 3 drop anonymous binding?

[tvaughan77]

You may already know this, (and it may not change anything for you) but those 2 properties are only used by the synchronization aspect of Alfresco/LDAP integration.

Depending on your company, it may not big that big of a deal to create some sort of "dn=alfresco_synch,ou=system,dc=mycompany,dc=com" user for the sole purpose of doing the synchronization…

[simon]

Thanks for the reply tvaughan77. You are right, I could create another account but it does work in my 2.1.1 installation so I'm wondering if Alfresco changed something in 3.0 and why they dropped anonymous binding (if they did).

[simon]

Alfresco, can you please comment on this? Did Alfresco 3 drop anonymous binding?

[simon]

*bump*

[simon]

Alfresco, can you please tell me if, and why, I need to specify the credentials?