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Re: rewrite a login into a dn in simple bind
Hello,
On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 11:56:29 +0200
Francois Beretti <francois.beretti@enatel.com> wrote:
> For technical reasons, I would like to bind to my openldap server
> using a login, not a dn, and I can't use other method than simple bind
> (with or without ssl/tls)
>
> The login would identify the user by being an attribute of its entry,
> like uid
>
> But openldap wait for a dn when one use simple bind.
>
> So I would like to map the login provided by the client to the dn of
> the entry which has this value in its "uid" attribute
AFAIR, the common method to do this is to do an anonymous bind, and use
this to search for (uid=whateveryouneed) to get the dn. Then, use this
dn to bind with the password.
Thanks,
Markus
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