Re: non-kerberos authentication against ldap server

[Francois Beretti <francois.beretti@enatel.com>]

hello

Le sam 10/05/2003 à 01:38, Dave Snoopy a écrit :
> I've setup my openldap server, and can connect to it
> with the rootdn and rootpw specified in my slapd.conf
> file.
> 
> I added some users too, which conform to the
> inetOrgPerson schema. One thing I don't understand is
> how to allow these users to authenticate against my
> LDAP server (in case they want to query it).

in simple authentification, you authenticate as a user with his dn and
his userPassword attribute

> Is there
> another module I need to setup on my server so that it
> knows how to authenticate users? Even for simple
> plaintext authentication?

no module needed

Francois

> 
> If so, how do I link that module to the actual users
> in my LDAP directory? Or will that happen
> automatically based on the bind dn?
> 
> I'd appreciate any help, or if someone could just
> point me to some documentation.
> Regards,
> Dave
> 
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