From: brabuhr@...
Date: 2009-08-01T06:42:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby-net-ldap fail

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Ben Bleything<ben@bleything.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Bruno Sousa<brgsousa@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> (See attachment) ==> it can connect with joe user. But it fails to
>> connect with users from OU "terceiros" for example.
>>
>> why is that?
>
> Likely because the server wants a full DN and ruby-net-ldap is
> assuming ou=Users,dc=... behind the scenes.  Try to auth using the
> full DN, I'll bet it's going to work.

In an Active Directory environment you can also use the user's UPN
instead of his DN for the bind username.