Re: Need to configure openLDAP client to request authenication in LDAP version 2 format

[Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>]

Buchan Milne wrote:
> Either way, it doesn't seem that the library can set the LDAP protocol version 
> (so, you can't put it in an OpenLDAP configuration file). You will have to 
> see whether PloneLDAP supports setting the protocol version. It doesn't 
> appear possible via configuration (from what I have seen), you may have to 
> hack PloneLDAP up a bit, or get a real LDAP server ....

I think the issue of the original poster is not with PloneLDAP, rather 
with his mail server which seems to have a LDAPv2 interface.

FYI: PloneLDAP is implemented in Python and therefore uses python-ldap 
as a LDAP API (which is for the protocol part a wrapper around the 
OpenLDAP client libs). In opposite to the OpenLDAP client libs 
python-ldap sets the default for protocol version to LDAPv3 (since 
version 2.0.0pre12 as of 2003-05-27). Although strictly speaking this 
was a incompatible API change nobody ever complained since then. ;-)

Ciao, Michael.