On 07/19/2010 12:16 PM, ashish nair wrote: > Hi Daniel, > When I try authenticating the users in the group IT, it is searching for > that user in that OU itself. But the users that are added as members in > the group are not able to because these are not present physically in > that OU. > auth_ldap authenticate: user user1 authentication failed; URI /secure > [User not found][No such object] > Thanks > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 2:49 PM, ashish nair <nair.ashish13 at gmail.com > <mailto:nair.ashish13 at gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hi Daniel, > Thanks for responding. > DC=ldapser,dc=com > | > OU=People > |--------user1...usern > | > |--------OU=shared > | > |--------------uid=ituser1 > |--------------cn=IT > This is the structure of the the ldap server.I have added users > user1...usern in the IT group via add member. > Now when I give the OU of shared as path for authentication, its > only accepting the logins > of the ituser1 but not of the group IT. > I need this setup as these users are common to a few OU's. > The ldap connecting string that is there in apache > "ldap://10.209.22.65:389/ou=shared,ou=People,dc=ldapser,dc=com?uid?sub?(objectClass=*)" > I tried both with uid and uniquemember. Both are not working . > Thanks again. "cn=IT" ? "cn" means "Common Name", and it generally contains a person's name. Based on what you've described above, there is no IT group. The Apache error contains the string "/secure", but the LDAP search string you provided does not. You might want to verify that. -- Daniel Maher <dma + 389users AT witbe DOT net>