Uid Auth not working for LDAP

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On the Domino server, we have Fewer Name Variations for Higher Security turned on.

We are trying to get an external server to authenticate against the Lotus Domino directory. We can auth against the database if CN=Full Name but we can’t use spaces in this program. From what I have read, you should still be able to auth with the UID but this is not working.

This might be basic so if you have done something like it, post what you had to do.

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Subject: uid Auth not working for LDAP

Hi,

sorry I dont know why this is not working but according to my knowledge it should work with UIDs.

However I would advise you to do some of the following steps to locate the problem: (if you already did this please post the results)

  1. Use the “Activity analysis” in the Administrator client (Server-Analysis-Activity …) to analyse any LDAP related actions. This way you will get all the LDAP-queries that have been send to the server and you can get the exact query syntax from these documents.

(You need to have activity logging enabled on the server !!!)

  1. Once you have the queries (one for the full name and one with the shortname) try to use the command-line utility “ldapsearch.exe” to send exact the same queries to your LDAP-server and have a look at the results.

This should give the information wheter the query is wrong or if the problem lies in the schema.

An other usefull tool I can suggest for checking your LDAP-data can be downloaded here: (its only a demo but it works for 30 days)

http://www.ldapadministrator.com/download/index.php

If you have some of the results please post them.

Bye

Hynek