ldap authentication fails with the following message in the error log: ----------------- [Sat Jun 17 21:11:19 2006] [debug] mod_auth_ldap.c(337): [client 192.168.x.x] [22698] auth_ldap authenticate: using URL ldap://ad.host.name.com:389/DC=XYZ,DC=ABC,DC=com?sAMAccountName?sub?(objectClass=*) [Sat Jun 17 21:11:19 2006] [warn] [client 192.168.x.x] [22698] auth_ldap authenticate: user flastname authentication failed; URI /test [ldap_search_ext_s() for user failed][Operations error] [Sat Jun 17 21:11:28 2006] [debug] mod_headers.c(527): headers: ap_headers_output_filter() ----------------- this is the relevant config: ----------------- LoadModule ldap_module modules/mod_ldap.so LoadModule auth_ldap_module modules/mod_auth_ldap.so <Location /test> AuthType Basic AuthName "LDAP test" AuthLDAPURL ldap://ad.host.name.com:389/DC=XYZ,DC=ABC,DC=com?sAMAccountName?sub?(objectClass=*) AuthLDAPBindDN "CN=BindLDAPUsername,OU=Generic IDs,DC=XYZ,DC=ABC,DC=com" AuthLDAPBindPassword password Require valid-user </Location> ----------------- when i capture the traffic between the AD and apache, i can see the bind happen, then the query, then the response with one record and proper sAMAccountName, but no subsequent bind to the LDAP server using the DN and the password passed by the HTTP client. i can run the same exact query using ldapsearch and it gets back identical results (and captured traffic looks the same): ----------------- ldapsearch -v -W -x \ -D"CN=BindLDAPUsername,OU=Generic IDs,DC=XYZ,DC=ABC,DC=com" \ -H ldap://ad.host.name.com:389 \ -b "DC=XYZ,DC=ABC,DC=com" \ "(&(objectClass=*)(sAMAccountName=flastname))" sAMAccountName ----------------- tcpdump capture between apache and AD: http://rafb.net/paste/results/9Duquf89.html software: --------- openldap 2.3.21 from sunfreeware.com solaris sparc 8 apache 2.0.55 thank you. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx