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Re: bind using username instead of dn



On Jun 16 at 3:36pm, Joe Grastara wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to allow users to bind to slapd 
> using a username instead of a distinguished name.

Can't be done (at least not directly).

The process is:

get the username and password
do an anonymous search for uid=username
bind with the returned dn and the password

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