I'm a newcomer to LDAP trying to assemble what should be a very simple tool:
take a user name, attempt to connect to an Active Directory server and bind on
UID only, so that it pops a password dialog, so that I can authenticate the
user of a particular application. I don't need anything more advanced than "is
this a valid DN, and if it is can you ask them for a password and let me know
if it's valid?"
My code, trivial as it is, is failing to even launch, because LdifAnonymizer
throws an exception that there's "No file to anonymize." Poking through the
source, ldap.client.api.LdifAnonymizer appears to do this when launched as a
standalone application without a file being passed in as a parameter. But I'm
not trying to launch anything, so I'm not sure what is, or why. I have the
following libraries added to Eclipse as "Referenced libraries:"
api-asn1-api-2.0.0.AM2.jar
api-asn1-ber-2.0.0.AM2.jar
api-ldap-client-api-2.0.0.AM2.jar
api-ldap-codec-core-2.0.0.AM2.jar
api-ldap-model-2.0.0.AM2.jar
mina-core-2.0.18.jar
slf4j-api-1.7.25.jar
This is the minimum set of libraries necessary to resolve all dependencies
generated by api-ldap-client-api-2.0.0.AM2.jar. I haven't touched any
configuration files. Everything's as it was downloaded. I'm obviously doing
something wrong, but from both the "Five Minutes[sic] Tutorial" (should be
"Minute," singular-English is funny that way) and what I can find in the User
Manual, the client should act like a client, not attempt to install or run any
services. Yet the User Manual only mentions Ldif in terms of adding records to
a DS server, and I have no interest at all in doing that. I just want to
connect and bind to a remote AD server, get my yes/no authentication result,
and unbind.
Am I using the wrong tool? Missing something obvious? I'm at my wit's end here.
I'd provide code, but this error happens even if I comment out the import
directive that brings in
org.apache.directory.ldap.client.api.LdapNetworkConnection. It appears to be
enough to link the JAR, and I get the error.
Thanks,
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James Robinson, Application Developer
State Health Registry of Iowa
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335-6619
