By: David White user 18 Aug 2016 at 11:19 a.m. CDT

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Hi All Forgive my ignorance, I'm trying to setup a gluu server so that external systems can use the LDAP server for client authentication. For example I have created a user on the gluu server called Peter Pan, and I want to integrate a file share server using LDAP to authenticate the users against the gluu server. ie The user logs into the file server with the username / passwd in the LDAP of the Gluu server. Where I'm coming unstuck is that the opendj server on the backend uses the inum field for it's dn, and so any attempts to authenticate using uid fail. I can however authenticate using the full dn. Am I missing something fundamental or is this configuration not possible? Many thanks and apologies if I am asking a stupid question! David

By Michael Schwartz Account Admin 18 Aug 2016 at 12:49 p.m. CDT

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That is typical for any ldap server. LDAP authentication always consists of two parts: 1. Search for DN (i.e. use filter "displayName=Peter Pan") 2. Send BIND operation with user DN + password.