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Browse All TopicsI'm trying to configure our PHPbb to allow LDAP authentication via Active Directory. I'm at a point where the configuration accepts everthing but the username/passowrd field. Has anyone successfully configured this, and if so can you guide me as to what I am doing wrong?
I used Softerra LDAP Administrator to confirm the base dn info.
Here's a snapshot of the configuration page and how I have it currenlty configured:
LDAP servername: server.domain.com
LDAP Server Port: 389
LDAP Base DN: DC=domain,DC=com
LDAP uid: samaccountname
LDAP user filter: <blank>
LDAP e-mail attribute:<blank>
LDAP user dn: uid=<userid>,ou=company name
LDAP Password: <password>
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by: Chris-DentPosted on 2009-02-05 at 07:01:20ID: 23559855
This bit:
LDAP user dn: uid=<userid>,ou=company name
You can't bind like that I'm afraid. It would be something like:
LDAP user dn: CN=Name,OU=somewhere,OU=so
If you're not sure about the DN you could use ADSIEdit.msc, browse the account and look at the distinguishedName attribute (or do the same with Softerra). Otherwise we can write little scripts to grab that kind of information.
HTH
Chris