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Ldap invalid credentials not loading authentication failure url

Able to do the custom ldap authentication for external db authorities. But when i am trying to test wrong password the authentication failure url is not showing instead my browser prints the exception details.Below is my securitycontext.xml and exption given <logout logout-success-url="...

Active directory authetication in IE

I would like to be automatically logged on a website using my password an login that are used on my computer when i open an AD session. Connection must be granted if i'm in the right AD group . Any advices ? ...

How do I query an organizational unit for its groups with LDAP?

I have tried many queries, but this gets me my OU: (&(objectCategory=organizationalUnit)(Name=MyOU)) (I just get the ou here) I tried to use (&(objectCategory=organizationalUnit)(objectClass=group)(Name=MyOU)) but failed. Also, (&(objectCategory=Group)(cn=MyOU,dc=mytop,dc=mysuffix)) and failed. I am trying to get the groups within th...

Web login using windows credentials

We have an intranet site on our corporate network (SharePoint 3). If I look at it via Internet Explorer - I'm already logged in. If I look at it using Firefox I have to enter my windows username & password. My questions is this: Why is there this discrepancy between the browsers? Does Microsoft have some proprietary plugin in IE that c...

Binding to AD Objects (with varying locations)

We are undergoing a migration from several domains into a single domain. As part of that process, user accounts are being moved around the various ADs a fair bit. This has resulted in some scripts breaking because they are trying to get the User objects from a specific location in AD. How would I amend the following to not be AD locat...

How can I tell if a user belongs to an role in active directory - using ColdFusion

If I am using integration authentication in IIS, how can I determine if the current user is part of a specific active directory role, using ColdFusion. This would be analogous to using the IsInRole() method of the User object in .net - how can it be done in ColdFusion ...

LDAP DB question

If I will store an array of information (account - e.g. fullname, address, userid, password) in a various servers and I would want to encrypt the password using md5, (question is), everytime I'll add the account into LDAP servers (since, that's what we're using), then does that mean that everytime i save password, i'll have to use 'crypt...

How can I search for items with attributes matching a specified pattern via LDAP?

I'm trying to search an LDAP server for all items with exactly the attributes specified. The LDAP schema I'm dealing records user roles by: creating a object type that may contain any of several attributes (the roles), and setting the each role's value to be the same as its name The attributes do not share a common base type, and th...

Accessing LDAP through SSH tunnel

Hello, I got access via SSH (root access) to a Machine that's inside a network at my client's office. I'm programming in my computer a PHP application that needs to integrate to LDAP. The LDAP server is in another server at my client's network and not accesible from outside, however I can perfectly access it via the server I can conne...

Does the LDAP protocol limit the length of a DN

Does the LDAP protocol specify a maximum length that a DN can take? I've looked through http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4514 but I can't find any restrictions that it imposes. ...

Inferring LDAP address from NT domain name

Given a NT style account name (DOMAIN\UserName) is it possible to infer what the LDAP address for that domain is so that user info can be looked up? My scenario: I have an asp.net app running on IIS that accepts both anonymous and domain users. The anonymous users have to sign in but the domain users I check the server headers for the ...

ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider "The specified domain or server could not be contacted."

I have an application that is using ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider to grant access to users. The application is hosted on a non-domain machine, with a firewall between the application server and the domain controller. We've opened the LDAP port to the DC on the inside network - yet no matter what we try, we end up with an error that...

how to create LDAP user with restricted rights to LDAP

I would like to create a user similar to admin, but with restricted privs. The user would be able to create/read/delete objects under a certain DN in the directory, but not others. ...

can a user be part of multiple subtree in a (Ldap based) Directory Service instance ?

Hi, I am pretty new to the ldap based directory service programming using .net framework; hence have a basic silly question. I would like to find out the all sub trees a particular user belongs to using System.DirectoryServices.Protocol. First of all , Can a User be part of the multiple Sub Trees in “a” directory service instance? If ...

Web user registration & profile editing app using LDAP backend

A organization I work with has multiple web facing applications (Django app, Rails apps, phpBB forums, mailman) and each has their own user logins and profiles. The organization wants to standardize on using LDAP has a place to store authentication and authorization data, as well as basic profile data. Is there an existing open source w...

What is my LDAP Connection String

Are thee any tools out there that can tell you what your LDAP connection string is? ...

How do I retrieve a list of only those users and groups that have been added since a certain date from an LDAP directory?

My application does an LDAP query once a day and fetches all the users and groups in a given container. Once it is fetched, my app goes iterates through the list of users of groups, adding only the new ones to my application's database (it adds only username). If there are 50,000 users, my application server is busy for 45 minutes ever...

LDAP attribute to encode the language of human users mother tongue?

What would be the canonical attribute in an LDAP schema to encode the mother tongue (first language) of a user? Interop with default/existing administration tools for Windows Active Directory would be a big plus. ...

Why isn't manager attribute changing on distinguished name modification in Sun Directory Server 6.3?

Hi. I have a problem with manager attribute in Sun Directory Server. I set this attribute for a user in the directory, e.g. cn=testmanager,dc=test,dc=com and when I change manager's dn this change is not propagated in manager attributes. For example: I have two users: dn: cn=testmanager,dc=test,dc=com and dn: cn=testperson,dc=tes...

How do I query ActiveDirectory using LDAP with a username, not a CN?

If I set the .NET DirectoryEntry.Path to something like: LDAP://CN=John Smith,OU=Group Name,DC=example,DC=com Everything works great, and I get the DirectoryEntry I need. However, I don't know the user's true Common Name (CN). I only know their username, "John.Smith". So, how can I query the username? I have tried all the followin...