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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by Tim Funk <fu...@joedog.org> on 2002/07/16 20:14:11 UTC

Re: Problems with Tomcat 4.0.3 -> JNDIRealms -> LDAP -> Netware 5

If you need to bind as the user - that implementation is done in  the 
4.1.X branch.

wbchmura@Ensign-BickfordInd.com wrote:
> Well, I got it working by making a new JNDIRealms object that when it 
> checks the authentication it tries to connect as that user.  Roles are 
> still a problem but that should not be insurmountable...
> 
> If anyone has good code for doing this, or know of an issue with how I 
> handled it, please let me know
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Chmura, William B. 
> Sent:	Monday, July 15, 2002 4:11 PM
> To:	'tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org'
> Subject:	Problems with Tomcat 4.0.3 -> JNDIRealms -> LDAP -> Netware 
> 5 
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> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Can someone tell me if this is possible or what...
> 
> 
> I have Tomcat connecting the LDAP server on Netware...  Beyond that I 
> have had many problems:
> 
> (1) Netware does not export a userPassword attribute.  I have a few 
> ideas on getting around this, such as a patch to try to connect as the 
> requested user, or using a different arribute
> 
> I told Tomcat to use the "Language" attribute as the password field and 
> I can authenticate using the password ENGLISH...  that works.  Any other 
> ideas?  This is going to be for some low level intranet stuff, so 
> storing the password in a different field is not all that far out of an 
> option (yes I know its security terrible).
> 
> (2) Beyond the one above:  Roles...
> 
> I cannot get it to get me a list of roles... anyone do this before?  
>>>From what I read in the tomcat docs it does not seem likes its possible 
> based on the way netware lists the groups...  
> 
> 
> ANY help, pointers, etc would be greatly apprecaited!
> 
> Bill
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