Re: Authentication prompts multiple times for login

Tony Stevenson <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> · Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:07:36 +0100

Joe Seeley wrote:

I am trying to use Apache LDAP authentication and proxying to make sure 

users exist in our LDAP repository.  This is working, but the user is 

always prompted to login multiple times.  In Firefox the users are 

prompted twice for their login; in IE the users are prompted three times 

for their login.

My conf file looks something like this.

ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPass / http://localhost:5000/
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:5000 <http://localhost:5000>

Why do you have <http://localhost:5000> ?

ProxyHTMLURLMap http://localhost:5000 http://1.2.3.4
ProxyHTMLURLMap http://localhost:5000 http://1.2.3.5

<Location />
  ProxyPassReverse http://localhost:5000
  SetOutputFilter proxy-html
  ProxyHTMLURLMap /     /
  AuthLDAPEnabled on
  AuthLDAPAuthoritative on

  AuthLDAPURL 

"ladp://myserver:3268/DC=FOO,DC=BAR,DC=COM?sAMAccountName?sub?"

I assume from this that you are trying to bind and authenticate against 

an AD server?

  AuthLDAPBindDN 'ldapuser@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:ldapuser@xxxxxxxxxxx>"

  AuthLDAPBindPassword "password"
  AuthType Basic
  AuthName "Login in using your domain login."
  require valid-user
</Location>

If you see a mistake in my conf file, or understand why this is 

prompting for multiple logins I would appreciate any advice.

Thanks,
         Joe

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