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Author NW 6.5 SP3 stops Require Group from working w/Auth_LDAP
dean.hathaway@phoenix.gov

2005-05-02, 5:45 pm

I opened an incident with NOVELL last week on this. They were able to
dupliate the problem and said they were going to put out an interanal bug
report on it.

- Dean H.

> I had a NW 6.5 SP1 server with a protected directory using AUTH_LDAP and a
> REQUIRE GROUP directive to specify members of an edirectory group as being
> the only ones authorized to access pages in an additional document
> directory. I had LDAP configured to allow clear text passwords. Everything
> was working fine.
>
> I installed SP3. Now REQUIRE GROUP fails everytime. I had to put the
> desired users into a REQUIRE USER directive in http.conf to get the same
> access. This indicates to me that LDAP, Auth_LDAP, and clear text passwords
> are all still working, just not REQUIRE GROUP.
>
> I tried building a test server at SP1, configuring and testing the same
> AUTH LDAP config, and it all worked. Then I installed SP3 on that box and
> the same thing occured. REQUIRE GROUP now fails.
>
> I tried putting the SP1 version of NLDAP.NLM on the SP3 test box but it
> still fails. I tried putting the SP3 version of NLDAP on another SP1 test
> box, and it still works (REQUIRE GROUP still authenticates correctly).
>
> Is this a bug? Is it in AUTH_LDAP?
>
> Anyone else seen, or solved this problem?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dean Hathaway
> City of Phoenix


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