Authenthication and Aliases

["Ace Suares" <ace@suares.nl>]

Hi,

Is it true that you can't authenticate off an alias ?

I tried something along the lines of:


access to dn="dc=example,dc=com"
	by dn="alias=.*,dc=example,dc=com" auth

with entries:

dn: user=Joe,dc=example,dc=com
userpassword: secret

dn: alias=LoginUser,dc=example,dc=com
objectclass: alias
aliasedobjectname: user=Joe,dc=example,dc=com

when i try autenticating as alias=LoginUser,dc=example,dc=com
with the userpassword 'secret', it won't let me and gives an error 
along the lines of 'LDAP: alias not allowed here' (or similar 
lingo).

Grtz.
ace


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