On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Thomas, Peter <ptho...@hpti.com> wrote: > [ c.f. https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48780 ] > > Eric Covener has commented, and I replied, to my suggested enhancement > for mod_auth_ldap. In this case, I am attempting to use LDAP for > authorization, accepting authentication from another provider--this > would most typically be mod_ssl, but I've seen other "in-family" cases > in Bugzilla's history where people are working to integrate SSO with > other authentication providers such as Kerberos [or more generally > GSSAPI]. > > The as-is implementation re-binds the LDAP connection using the user and > password provided to perform the compare phase. The proposed patch adds > a [non-default] option to the LDAP provider that causes the compare > phase to occur without a user-specific re-binding.
I haven't dug too deeply, but I didn't see how the attached patch changed the authorization-time behavior. Can you elaborate? -- Eric Covener cove...@gmail.com
