How to check a username/password combination?
LDAP supports a compare of userPassword. You send the password, the server does the compare and returns true or false. This is the not-requiring a login way to authenticate users.
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LDAP filter for blank (empty) attribute
From LDAP, there is not a query method to determine an empty string. The best practice would be to scrub your data inputs to LDAP as an empty or null value in LDAP is no value at all. To determine this you would need to query for all with a value (manager=*) and then use … Read more
How to build LDAP integration for my web app?
There are several options. If you really mean LDAP, as opposed to just Active Directory, I would probably look at using System.DirectoryServices.Protocols to perform an LDAP bind using the supplied credentials via a secure channel. Strictly, this isn’t Single Sign-On. SSO means only having to submit your creds once when you first log on. This … Read more
Why doesn’t ldapsearch over ssl/tls work?
First, replace -h my.server.com -p 3269 with -H ldaps://my.server.com:3269 as suggested by @dearlbry. Then, in /etc/openldap/ldap.conf (or /etc/ldap/ldap.conf on my Ubuntu 13.04), disable certificate verification by adding this : HOST my.server.com PORT 3269 TLS_REQCERT ALLOW You can also create a ldaprc file in the current directory with the same content if you don’t want to … Read more
How to resolve javax.naming.PartialResultException?
Another possible solution that may work is to change the port number (assuming this is a GC server): If you were using the port 389 change it to 3268 If you were using the port 636 change it to 3269 This may work because (and I quote): A GC (global catalog) server returns referrals on … Read more
Is there any free ldap server with data? [closed]
Here you go: Online LDAP Test Server It’s free, contains data, browsable. Make sure you use LDAP v3 when trying to bind. Example of using from command line: ldapsearch -W -h ldap.forumsys.com -D “uid=tesla,dc=example,dc=com” -b “dc=example,dc=com” Password: password Returns: # extended LDIF # # LDAPv3 # base <dc=example,dc=com> with scope subtree # filter: (objectclass=*) # … Read more
What does LDAP solve?
What is LDAP? What are the scenarios where LDAP is the right choice? At its core, LDAP is a protocol for accessing objects that are suitable for storage in a directory. Whether something is “suitable” is an entirely subjective determination that’s left up to implementers, but typically this means collections of many objects that each … Read more
How to write LDAP query to test if user is member of a group?
You should be able to create a query with this filter here: (&(objectClass=user)(sAMAccountName=yourUserName) (memberof=CN=YourGroup,OU=Users,DC=YourDomain,DC=com)) and when you run that against your LDAP server, if you get a result, your user “yourUserName” is indeed a member of the group “CN=YourGroup,OU=Users,DC=YourDomain,DC=com Try and see if this works! If you use C# / VB.Net and System.DirectoryServices, this snippet … Read more
What is LDAP used for?
I will focus on why using LDAP, not what is LDAP. The use model is similar like how people use library cards or phonebooks. When you have a task that requires “write/update once, read/query many times”, you might consider using LDAP. LDAP is designed to provide extremely fast read/query performance for a large scale of … Read more