[xwiki-users] Authenticating to AD/LDAP

[Brian J. Sayatovic]

I set this up at work, and if recall correctly, I let the bind_DN be 
that of the authenticating user logging into XWiki, and likewise for 
their password.  Effectively,binding to ActiveDirectory as the user 
attempting to authenticate to XWiki.

Regards,
Brian.

Neil Sedger wrote:
> Is the example AD configuration in the Wiki the right way to do things?
>
> My understanding is that the bind_DN and bind_pass are for setting the 
> username and password XWiki will use to connect to the LDAP server in 
> order to do a search, then the UID_attr field is searched for the 
> username entered on the form.
>
> If that is correct then the bind_dn and bind_pass should either be 
> hardcoded to a special AD user with restricted privileges, or left 
> blank to bind anonymously. (I see no mention of anonymous binding?)
>
> For the first of these XWiki connects to AD ok but then seems to 
> 'authenticate OK' whatever username/password I enter on the form even 
> if the user does not exist in AD at all. Is this a bug?
>
> I can't seem to get anonymous binding to work - if I leave bind_dn and 
> bind_pass empty or comment out the entries entirely I always get the 
> 'LDAP Bind failed with Exception Invalid Credentials' error message. 
> My LDAP server does allow anonymous binding - I've tested this in LDAP 
> Browser.
>
>
> Cheers
> Neil
>
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