Re: Integration with Active directory
Posted: 27 Aug 2015 20:21
Dear Miguel
I'm happy to hear that you finally found a solution to make it work even if the workaround is a bit far-fetched I'm curious to know that how you find that we should use the 'sAMAccountType=805306368' filter.
Regarding unencrypted exchanged passwords with an LDAP (or AD) server you have to possibility to use LDAPS. See the commands authenticate ldap server... and authenticate ldap certificate... for further information. Equivalent Web GUI menu options are:
"[SECURITY] / [Users Authentication] / [LDAP Servers] "
and
"[SECURITY] / [TLS Certificates] / [LDAP Certificate]".
But please note that Web navigators always send passwords unencrypted to Web proxies.
Anyway thank you so much for investigating around this issue. As you mentioned, AD is very popular and we certainly need to make CG work with it.
My idea to resolve the issue is as follows:
- Make the ldapFilter optional in order to avoid guessing strange filters
- Make the passwordAttribute optional to allow CG to use LDAP binding instead of comparing the entered password to a given attribute.
We should be able to add this fix to the latest maintenance release which is 1.1.2. I hope that we can publish that release before the end of August 2015.
Which version of CG are you using today?
Best Regards,
I'm happy to hear that you finally found a solution to make it work even if the workaround is a bit far-fetched I'm curious to know that how you find that we should use the 'sAMAccountType=805306368' filter.
Regarding unencrypted exchanged passwords with an LDAP (or AD) server you have to possibility to use LDAPS. See the commands authenticate ldap server... and authenticate ldap certificate... for further information. Equivalent Web GUI menu options are:
"[SECURITY] / [Users Authentication] / [LDAP Servers] "
and
"[SECURITY] / [TLS Certificates] / [LDAP Certificate]".
But please note that Web navigators always send passwords unencrypted to Web proxies.
Anyway thank you so much for investigating around this issue. As you mentioned, AD is very popular and we certainly need to make CG work with it.
My idea to resolve the issue is as follows:
- Make the ldapFilter optional in order to avoid guessing strange filters
- Make the passwordAttribute optional to allow CG to use LDAP binding instead of comparing the entered password to a given attribute.
We should be able to add this fix to the latest maintenance release which is 1.1.2. I hope that we can publish that release before the end of August 2015.
Which version of CG are you using today?
Best Regards,