Re: authenticating with netscape messenger

[Norbert Klasen <klasen@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Hi Michael,
> When I experimentally let dn="" read the mail= attribute, I
> discovered that Netscape looks up the e-mail address, and if
> it occurs in one and only one entry, tries to log in with
> that DN and the user-supplied password. This always fails if
> the e-mail address is found more than once. Now I'm
> wondering why they decided to use an e-mail address to
> identify directory entries, when that's what DNs were for.
> It's not unreasonable to have more than one entry list the
> same e-mail address, and I see no point (and extra work) in
> prohibiting this, or in inventing new unique e-mail
> addresses just to use as login names for Netscape Messenger.

You can specify the bindDN in the preferences.js file. See:
http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/communicator/ldap45.htm

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