Re: [Evolution] Evo 1.2 & LDAP with MS Exchange Server

[Chris Toshok <toshok ximian com>]

On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 22:34, Dieter Kluenter wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Cormac Long <cormac_long yahoo co uk> writes:
>
> > Does anyone have evo 1.2 working with MS Exchange LDAP server?.. if so can you
> > provide details of the configuration.. bind, scope etc
> > I've monitored evo and gq using Ethereal..
> > Results from using gq (which works)
> > firstly, it binds but with simple authentication and dn and password set to
> > NULL
> > Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
> >     Message: Id=1  Bind Request
> >         Message Length: 7
> >         Version: 2
> >         DN: (null)
> >         Auth Type: Simple (0x00)
> >         Password: (null)
>
> Active Directory doesn't do a simple bind, AFAIK AD is using a sort of
> SASL library, which is unsupported in gq, that's why gq does only a
> anonymous search.

actually it's probably doing an anonymous bind because he didn't tell it
to authenticate him :)

we do simple binds with AD servers and it seems to work fine.

> Furthermore AD uses additional ABSTRACT object classes, which are not
> part of X.500 protocol.
> It's all documented in the Microsoft White Paper 'Understanding LDAP'.

This shouldn't affect authentication (or even searching) with evolution.

Chris