On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 2:13 AM, John A. Sullivan III<jsullivan at opensourcedevel.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 23:29 -0700, Techie wrote: >> Hello, >> I am trying to altogether eliminate anonymous access to my directory. >> However in doing this my authentication fails unless....I add a binddn >> and bindpw to the ldap.conf on the clients. >> As I understand it "bindpw" is inappropriate according to the OpenLDAP >> architects. >> >> So my situation right now looks like this. I have a ldap.conf >> populated with a binddn and bindpw entry. >> This allows me to remove anonymous access and authenticate to the >> directory with ldap user credentials. >> This is what I want, I just do not want to store a username and pass >> in the ldap.conf file. >> >> However if I remove this binddn and bindpw entry, and I disallow >> anonymous access, I am unable to authenticate against the directory >> using ldap user credentials. Even though upon attempting to login i am >> supplying valid LDAP user credentials it cannot find the user because >> it initially binds as "nobody" or 'dn="" in the access log and is >> unable to locate attributes do to the lack of anonymous access. >> >> Is there a way to have LDAP use the credential of the user logging in >> to bind to the directory initially. >> What are my options? >> I can force SASL GSSAPI but it it not ideal in my situation. >> > <snip> > As far as I know (and that's not very far), that's the way it is. How > else would the client be able to query the directory. We made sure we > did not use a sensitive password and also ensured the ldap.conf file was > NOT world readable. We also had to implement some custom ACIs to > replace anonymous access and, I'm surprised how many applications simply > assume anonymous access; we had to do a bit of dancing on a per > application basis to make them work. Hope this helps - John > -- > John A. Sullivan III > Open Source Development Corporation > +1 207-985-7880 > jsullivan at opensourcedevel.com > > http://www.spiritualoutreach.com > Making Christianity intelligible to secular society John, It does help, thank you. Currently I use an account for the binddn that has only read access to a subset of attributes. not much damage can be done. I will keep searching and see what I find. Thanks again
