From: Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@...>
Date: 2008-10-29T22:09:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Simple LDAP query

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What is the value of user_ID?

it needs to be user_name@full.base.of.domain

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:59 PM, Chris Henderson <henders254@gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm using ruby-1.8.6 and trying to query my Windows Active Directory
> LDAP server. But I'm getting connection failed. I can ping the AD
> server, I can resolve the host name or the IP address and I know the
> LDAP authentication is working. But I'm still getting error message
> when I query it via the following script. The error message I get is
> "fail!"
>
> Could anyone please tell me what I'm doing wrong? Do I need to define
> the base DN?
>
> #!/usr/bin/ruby
> require 'rubygems'
> require 'net/ldap'
>
> ldap = Net::LDAP.new
> ldap.host = "ldap.domain.com"
> ldap.port = 389
> ldap.auth "user_ID", "password"
> if ldap.bind
> print "success!\n"
> # authentication succeeded
> else
> print "fail!\n"
> # authentication failed
> end
>
>


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