From: Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@...>
Date: 2009-08-04T05:44:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby-net-ldap fail

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On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Bruno Sousa <brgsousa@gmail.com> wrote:

> Ben Bleything wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Bruno Sousa<brgsousa@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I got it working with ruby-ldap.
> >> Is it necessary to specify the organization unit? It's working ONLY if=
 I
> >> specify it:
> >
> > Yes, as mentioned before you need to provide the full path (DN) or
> > similar so that the ldap server can find your user.  When you don't,
> > it assumes you mean ou=3DUsers.
> >
> > Ben
>
> Is it a library limitation? Or it really should work like this?
> I imagined it should work as when you log in windows computers:
> username, passwod and Domain. No need for OUs :)
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>
>
You are forgetting that when you log into a Windows computer you have to
specify the domain.  That info plus your username become the authentication
string.  Microsoft just hides it well.

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