Re: Need to configure openLDAP client to request authenication in LDAP version 2 format

[Anthony Porcano <anthony.porcano@247realmedia.com>]

This would be adjusted in your slapd.conf. See http://linux.die.net/man/5/slapd.conf

You will need an allow statement such as "allow bind_v2".

 --AP

On Jun 23, 2008, at 11:28 AM, kenglund wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am installing a new version of our Zope/Plone software for hosting  
> our web portal.  The new software is using a product called  
> PloneLDAP, which (I think) in turn requests authentication using  
> openLDAP client.  openLDAP is authenticating through our mail  
> server, which wants bind requests in version 2 format. Modification  
> of the mail server software to use version 3 authentication does not  
> seem to be an option, as (according to my Tech guy) it is “really  
> not LDAP”, but has an “LDAP Like” interface.  The interface requires  
> the bind to look like this:
>
> ldapConnection, userid, password
>
> not in version 3 format, which looks like this:
>
> ldapConnection, uid=”userid”, password
>
>
>
>
> I have tried to force openLDAP client to perform bind requests using  
> the “ldap_version 2”  parameter in the /usr/local/etc/openldap/ 
> ldap.conf system-wide ldap configuration file, and also in a .ldaprc  
> file stored in the Zope working directory.  Neither seem to work.   
> Can anyone tell me how to successfully configure openLDAP to send a  
> version 2 bind request?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ken