RE: [squid-users] ldap auth testing

I typed the username password at the command prompt after running the
options. It was a little confusing, as was adding in the -x, because the -x
wasn't needed in ldapsearch queries. As Rick found, reading the docs helped.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Neto [mailto:tneto@komatsu.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 9:03 AM
To: Rick Whitley
Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: Re: [squid-users] ldap auth testing

A little trick not in the man pages or the docs.

When testing squid_ldap_auth or squid_ldap_group from the unix (Linux)
shell, you must pipe the username and password information into the
program. This is what Squid itself does. This stumped me for a bit
early on.

echo "<username>
<password>" | squid_ldap_auth -options...

Otherwise, when testing all you will get is "ERR".

Tim

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Rick Whitley wrote:

>I got ldapsearch to work. I used the -x option to use a simple bind.
>Amazing how much you find out when you read "all" the options instead
>of stopping at the first one you need. Thanks for all the responses.
>Now I know that squid can communicate with ldap, but I still can't get
>a response from squid_ldap_auth. Here is my request:
>
>squid_ldap_auth -b "ou=academics,o=dbu" -f "cn=whitleyr" -u cn -D
>"cn=LDAPUser,ou=users,o=dbu" -w "n0neshall" -h 10.5.10.215
>
>When I execute this request nothing happens, if I hit enter again I get
>ERR. I have looked at the man pages for squid_ldap_auth but I don't see
>anything wrong with my request. I need other eyes to take a look at it.
>
>
>thanks for your time.
>
>
>rick...
>Rom.5:8
>
>
>
>>>>Henrik Nordstrom <hno@squid-cache.org> 7/27/2004 5:24:30 PM >>>
>>>>
>>>>
>On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Rick Whitley wrote:
>
>
>
>>Thanks for the info. When I run ldapsearch I get the following
>>
>>
>message:
>
>
>>SASL/EXTERNAL authentication started
>>ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: unknown authentication method (86)
>> additional info: SASL(-4): no mechanism available:
>>
>>
>
>man ldapsearch, look for sasl.
>
>(-x option)
>
>Regards
>Henrik
>
>
>
>
Received on Wed Jul 28 2004 - 08:51:18 MDT