--On Tuesday, June 24, 2008 6:38 PM +0200 Buchan Milne bgmilne@staff.telkomsa.net wrote:
On Tuesday 24 June 2008 18:20:28 Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
--On Monday, June 23, 2008 11:28 AM -0400 kenglund kenglund@sbc.edu wrote:
Hello,
I am installing a new version of our Zope/Plone software for hosting our web portal. The new software is using a product called PloneLDAP, which (I think) in turn requests authentication using openLDAP client. openLDAP is authenticating through our mail server, which wants bind requests in version 2 format. Modification of the mail server software to use version 3 authentication does not seem to be an option, as (according to my Tech guy) it is "really not LDAP", but has an "LDAP Like" interface. The interface requires the bind to look like this:
Either your tech guy is on crack, since LDAP v3 is the current LDAP protocol version, and has been for many years, or you have a misunderstanding somewhere along the way of what they were saying.
Or, the software in question *really* only does do LDAPv2. This is the case with a lot of proprietary software from supposedly reputable vendors.
Whether or not the software only does LDAPv2 in no way relates to saying that "ldapv3 is really not ldap". That's why I said either the guy is on crack, or there was a misunderstanding (i.e., the software only does ldapv2, and trying to do ldapv3 would be a hack, etc).
--Quanah
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Quanah Gibson-Mount Principal Software Engineer Zimbra, Inc -------------------- Zimbra :: the leader in open source messaging and collaboration