Re: simple Authentication

[Mathias Meisfjordskar <mathias.meisfjordskar@usit.uio.no>]

[ Aubrey Moore ]

> Hi everyone, I am trying to get courier (with squirrelMail) to use
> LDAP authentication but everytime sqirrelmail will fail producing
> the following
> error in the messages file
> 	ldap_bind: Inappropriate authentication
> 
> If I try doing what I think should be a correct ldapsearch on the
> commandline I get the ame error e.g
> 	ldapsearch -x -w email -D "dc=kit, dc=mail" "(cn=aubs) *
> 
> The only documentation I can find on this error states the
> userPassword attribute is missing but I don't understand this???

-D "dc=kit, dc=mail" means you're trying to autenticate as user
 "dc=kit,dc=mail". Use 

-D  mail=aubs@kit.mail,ou=mailboxes,dc=kit,dc=mail 

instead.

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Mathias Meisfjordskar
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