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RE: authentication ?

I have all my users in ou=People,dc=birddog,dc=com.  If I want openldap to use
that ou for authentication, how do I do that?
Like uid and userPassword for the attributes that hold the username and password
that are used to bind.

Thank you!

-- 
Terry Davis
Systems Administrator
BirdDog Solutions, Inc.
(402) 829-6059


Quoting "Barnes, Todd" <Todd.Barnes@avocent.com>:

> When you bind (unless it's anonymous) you have to supply a password.  From
> then on your connection is associated with those credentials unless you
> rebind.
> 
> The ACL contains a list like:
> 	user xxx can read this data
> 	user xx1 can read and write this
> 	
> your credentials are matched up with the ACL to see what access you should
> have.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terry Davis [mailto:tdavis@birddog.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 3:43 PM
> To: Barnes, Todd
> Subject: RE: authentication ?
> 
> 
> I get the bind crudentials.  But where do I specify the password for this?
> Is
> this all contained within the ACL itself?
> 
> -- 
> Terry Davis
> Systems Administrator
> BirdDog Solutions, Inc.
> (402) 829-6059
> 
> 
> Quoting "Barnes, Todd" <Todd.Barnes@avocent.com>:
> 
> > Binding to an LDAP server requires credentials which identify you -
> unless
> > you are binding anonymously, which in itself is an identification.
> > Subsequent operations that you might make, like queries for example, will
> > first review your supplied credentials against the ACL list to cull
> > inappropriate data for you from the data set.  
> > 
> > Not too complicated - it's a lot like file protections.  Someone puts
> them
> > on and then they work on your requests.
> > 
> > Hope this helps - 
> > -Todd-
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Terry Davis [mailto:tdavis@birddog.com]
> > Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 11:23 PM
> > To: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> > Subject: authentication ?
> > 
> > 
> > In the ACL docs it says stuff about user authentication.  How does
> openldap
> > authenticate a user to provide access?
> > 
> > -- 
> > Terry Davis
> > Systems Administrator
> > BirdDog Solutions, Inc.
> > (402) 829-6059
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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