please share patch, so we all can take look of it?

Eero

2016-02-03 21:35 GMT+02:00 Albrecht Dreß <[email protected]>:

> Hi all,
>
> I am not sure if this is the right place for a proposal which would IMHO
> improve the LDAP authentication feature.
>
> The LDAP authentication feature is really cool, but unfortunately it is a
> little limited as the DN must include the user name entered in the
> authentication dialogue, which is typically the user ID (uid).  In my
> OpenLDAP installation, the DN contains the CN ("cn=Jack D. Ripper,dc=..."),
> but not the uid.  Thus, the "usual" single sign-on is not possible.
>
> A simple solution would be to optionally /search/ LDAP for the dn matching
> "uid=...", and then use the dn returned from the search to bind as password
> verification (I think this is what e.g. Apache does).
>
> Thus, I modified the OpenVAS sources (openvas-libraries-8.0.6) by
> - adding a bool flag to optionally use the 'authdn' config item as search
> pattern for searching the actual dn,
> - adding a search base config item, and
> - extending the ldap bind procedure by first binding anonymously and
> searching the dn when requested.
>
> This works just nicely with my OpenLDAP installation which allows an
> anonymous search.  If this is not possible (as with AD?), two more config
> items for a search user dn and password could be added easily.
>
> Opinions?  Are you interested in my solution?
>
> Cheers
> Albrecht.
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