lmenezes/cerebro

LDAP and Windows AD

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#392 opened on Aug 22, 2019

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Description

I have LDAP working with Windows AD using mail as user-attr.

Recently I changed mail address in Windows user accounts and now they cannot access Cerebro using LDAP. They get a user/password error.

After doing some tests I found that Cerebro LDAP (using mail as user attribute) only works if mail and UPN attributes matches in AD. Another combination fails to authenticate.

This is the actual configuration I use: type: ldap method = "simple" user-template = "%s" user-attr = "mail"

Could it be an issue with Cerebro LDAP config?

Thanks.

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Research direction
Investigate the LDAP authentication code, specifically how the user attr 'mail' is used and whether there is a dependency on UPN matching. Trace the authentication flow to identify where the mismatch causes failure.
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javascript
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backendauthentication
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