Re: [users@httpd] Re: Confused about LDAP authentication with Active Directory

["Mark H. Wood" <mw...@IUPUI.Edu>]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:18:14PM +0000, Ed Avis wrote:
> Davide Bianchi <davide <at> walterisookeensufferukker.nl> writes:
> >>I don't know what the extra '?cn?sub' at the end of the query string is for
> >
> >"cn" means that the attibute to use to login is the CN = common name,
> 
> Surely that's not what I want?  The username is in the sAMAccountName attribute.

'sAMAccountName' should always work in ADS and is probably what you
want to use with it.  'cn' works here, but I think I've seen ADS sites
where it didn't, or didn't have the same value.

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