Great feedback - thanks Jared.

Les

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Jared Bunting
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Basically.
>
> Also a "userLookupQuery" as an alternative to "userDnTemplate".  I'd be happy 
> to write the patch, but unfortunately by current work environment doesn't 
> provide me the opportunity to test LDAP authentication.  So, I'll write it if 
> someone else can test it.
>
> Thanks,
> Jared
>
> On 03/31/2011 04:26 PM, Les Hazlewood wrote:
>> So you mean a 'connectionUserDn' and a 'connectionPassword' to connect
>> to LDAP to perform ad-hoc queries, and not just the DN format that is
>> used for authenticating end-users via a bind operation. Correct?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Les
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Jared Bunting
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> As was mentioned in the other thread, the ability to do a query 
>>> (potentially with a configurable username/password) in order to determine 
>>> the user dn would be enormously useful.  This is a fairly standard way to 
>>> do ldap authentication (typically the "username" is an attribute of the dn) 
>>> and shiro should probably support it by default.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jared
>>>
>>> On 03/31/2011 12:53 PM, Les Hazlewood wrote:
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>
>>>> The latest LDAP support currently is in the form of the JndiLdapRealm.
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, this name has confused enough people - often they think
>>>> they need to be using JNDI in order to use it (this is not the case -
>>>> the JNDI API itself is used as an implementation strategy, and it does
>>>> not require that anything be actually stored in JNDI, but that's
>>>> beside the point).
>>>>
>>>> Because of this, there is a Jira issue to rename it to something else
>>>> for the next release (i.e. deprecate JndiLdapRealm and create a
>>>> 'DefaultJndiRealm' or something like that).  When we do that, we have
>>>> the opportunity to make it better and/or add features.
>>>>
>>>> What is missing from Shiro's LDAP support that you would need in order
>>>> to use it 'out-of-the-box' with your apps?  Ideally I'd like to get as
>>>> much in there such that subclassing is rarely necessary.
>>>>
>>>> All suggestions are welcome!
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Les

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