From: Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2005-11-18T02:38:55+09:00
Subject: ruby-ldap, invalid credentials

Hi all,

Another ldap newb question.

I can't seem to bind to the ldap server with a password.  For example, this works:

# ldaptest.rb
require "ldap"

ldap_server = "ldap.foo.com"
password    = "XXX"

ldap = LDAP::Conn.new(ldap_server)
ldap.simple_bind("cn=djberge,dc=foo,dc=bar,dc=com")

However, if I try to password as the second argument to simple_bind, I get an 
Invalid credentials (LDAP::ResultError).  I'm positive the password is correct.

My main goal is to perform ldap authentication within a Rails controller.  I 
thought I could just check success or failure on simple_bind, but that doesn't 
seem to be the case.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

Dan