Bug 43792

Summary:	Feature proposal - bind phase
Product:	Apache httpd-2	Reporter:	Assen Tchorbadjiev <apache>
Component:	mod_auth_ldap	Assignee:	Apache HTTPD Bugs Mailing List <bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED LATER
Severity:	enhancement	Keywords:	MassUpdate, PatchAvailable
Priority:	P2
Version:	2.0.61
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	FreeBSD
URL:	http://tchorbadjiev.com/patches/httpd-2.0.61/modules/experimental/mod_auth_ldap.c.patch
Attachments:	the patch

Description Assen Tchorbadjiev 2007-11-04 09:58:05 UTC

Hello,
The patch adds two more optional configuration directives to the mod_auth_ldap
module - 
AuthLDAPBindUserSuppliedAuth On/Off
AuthLDAPBindSuffixDN String

The idea is to allow the user supplied credentials to be used for the initial
bind phase, instead of the hard coded ones or anonymous. In my case the LDAP
directory cannot be searched w/o successful authentication and for
administrative reasons we cannot afford to keep the user/pass pair in the
configuration file.

The patch does not change the way, the actual authentication & following checks
made by the module work, but only make it fallback to the user supplied
user/pass pair on the 2x bind calls.

Please let me know whether this is considered a worthy feature at all, and I'll
be happy to provide a cleaner patch.

Comment 1 Assen Tchorbadjiev 2007-11-04 09:58:54 UTC

Created attachment 21084 [details]
the patch

Comment 2 Peter Thomas 2010-03-16 15:39:29 UTC

Orthogonal to your suggested patch, but a possible alternative:  Can you use mutual SASL authentication over SSL/TLS as an alternative to a hard-coded or dynamic binddn and password?

Comment 3 William A. Rowe Jr. 2018-11-07 21:08:01 UTC

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