Defect #1420
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LDAP authentication extremely flaky
Added by mathew murphy over 16 years ago.
Updated almost 12 years ago.
Description
I hit a problem with LDAP on Linux. It turns out that net/ldap is extremely unreliable when authenticating against the LDAP server at work. I've filed a bug against net/ldap on RubyForge, but since the project seems dormant it's not clear anything will happen.
As a workaround, I coded up a replacement for app/models/auth_source_ldap.rb that uses the Ruby interface to OpenLDAP. So far this has been reliable.
Presumably ruby/ldap works for some people, so it might be nice to offer both as options, but I couldn't immediately work out how to patch RedMine to do that.
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Hi Mathew,
I also ran into this problem when trying to use the default ldap api on a linux server. Your patch works great, thanks ; )
Adriano Crestani Campos
I'm uploading a new patch that contains a merge of the file created by Mathew (the one that uses OpenLDAP instead) and the auth_source_ldap.rb file from revision 2482.
I've created a patch that also uses Ruby/LDAP. After I wrote it, I found your patch and they are very similar ;) However it seems that your patch does not bind as the given user if it is set in the account and password fields. I've (hopefully) fixed it in initialize_ldap_con by adding a call to bind after creating connection. The patch can be found here: #3253
this should be filed under the LDAP category.
- Category changed from Accounts / authentication to LDAP
- Status changed from New to Needs feedback
Well maybe this is resolved due some further upgrades of ldap.
Any news on this? Someone who can verify this?
Last time I tried it was when I upgraded to 2.1, and it's still broken there. If there have been LDAP improvements in the last few months, I can try again?
- Target version set to Candidate for next major release
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