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pcm2a
Joined: 24 Nov 2011
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 Posted: Thu 24 Nov '11 18:40 Post subject: Apache + LDAPS Woes... |
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I am trying to get ldaps to work with Apache 2.2 on Server 2008 x64.
Here is my configuration:
| Code: | LDAPVerifyServerCert Off
AuthLDAPBindDN “CN=corpsvcatlas,OU=Service Accounts,OU=u00958,OU=00958,DC=hca,DC=corpad,DC=net”
AuthLDAPBindPassword ..removed..
AuthLDAPURL “ldaps://gc-hca.corpad.net:3269/dc=hca,dc=corpad,dc=net?sAMAccountName?sub”
AuthType Basic
AuthName “USE YOUR WINDOWS ACCOUNT”
AuthBasicProvider ldap
AuthUserFile /dev/null
require valid-user |
Two important things to note here:
Note 1: If I use ldap plain text (port 3268) this configuration works
Note 2: If I use LDAP Browser I can connect via ldaps on port 3269 without any issues. There is no ldap server problem.
This is the error coming back in the apache logs:
| Code: | | [3016] auth_ldap authenticate: user eqb9718 authentication failed; URI /git/Liferay.git/info/refs [LDAP: ldap_simple_bind_s() failed][Server Down] |
What is that error telling me, since we know that the server is not down? |
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James Blond
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pcm2a
Joined: 24 Nov 2011
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| Posted: Thu 24 Nov '11 23:07 Post subject: |
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| The other post is someone having trouble with their keys/certificates. You can see that I am using "LDAPVerifyServerCert Off" so I won't have this problem. I am also getting a different error than him. |
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James Blond
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| Posted: Fri 25 Nov '11 10:32 Post subject: |
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Things I missed.
In whindows a file /dev/null does not exist. If you realy need that you should use C:/nul, but I doubt that. Why a AuthUserFile when you want to auth against LDAP?
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[3016] auth_ldap authenticate: user eqb9718 authentication failed; URI /git/Liferay.git/info/refs [LDAP: ldap_simple_bind_s() failed][Server Down]
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If the bind step fails then there is something wrong with the AuthLDAPBindDN, the AuthLDAPBindPassword or the AuthLDAPURL.
First thing you should try is not to bind using the full DN but instead use the user@domain syntax
If the bind works but something goes wrong with the query, the error is probably caused by a fault AuthLDAPURL and will look something like:
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auth_ldap authenticate: user John Doe authentication failed; URI / [ldap_search_ext_s() for user failed][Operations error]
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change the require to something like
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# specific user
# Require ldap-user "john.doe"
# specific user by DN
# Require ldap-dn CN=John Doe,OU=Finance,OU=Germany,DC=example,DC=com
# member of group
# Require ldap-group CN=Finance Department,OU=Finance,OU=Germany,DC=example,DC=com
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To search for a user, do a subtree search for the attribute userPrincipalName, with an empty search root, like so:
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AuthLDAPBindDN apache@example.com
AuthLDAPBindPassword password
AuthLDAPURL ldaps://10.0.0.1:3269/?userPrincipalName?sub
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pcm2a
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| Posted: Sat 26 Nov '11 3:59 Post subject: |
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I will give that a shot and report back. Just to double verify did you read my bolded line where I say "Note 1: If I use ldap plain text (port 3268) this configuration works".
You think that with plain text my BindDN would work great but fail with that error in SSL? Seems odd. Across a dozen applications I've only ever used a fully qualified DN. |
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