[Opensource] LDAP Help, please !!!

[todd tredeau]

We  had to write our own jndi authentication section, as the ldap 
authentication may sometimes depend on returning a password 
(retrieving). This is not possible on some platforms.  What is your 
platform.. That's probably all the help I will be on this issue or 
contact vkostov at wisernet . c o m for "sample NWJNDI" authentication 
code.. (which is used with tomcat 4. 1. 7.

todd


jean-francois.james at atosorigin.com wrote:

>We are trying to make Expresso with a LDAP Server and we need help in this
>very hard task ...
>
>We have configured Expresso to work with a LDAP server and its OK.
>
>For instance, the LoginController succeeds in atempting to log a User
>defined in the LDAP Server.
>
>But nothing works after because the DBController is not able to handle
>state transitioning : an Exception is thrown in its stateAllowed().
>
>I don't understand the way UserLDAP is supposed to work :
>
>   its retrieve() method needs the UserName attribute to be set up,
>   in its stateAllowed() method, DBController just calls setUid() (via the
>   User interface) before calling retrieve(),
>   so retrieve() throws an exception because UserName is empty !!!
>
>Moreover, most of the User attributes (State, DomainRegistry, etc ...) are
>not mapped to real LDAP attribute. For instance, getUid() allways retuns 0.
>
>Any help appreciated.
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