Hi,

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 7:02 PM, werner mueller
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hallo
>
>  i am currently trying to setup xwiki on taomcat 5.5/mysql. until now its
>  doing quite well :)
>
>  my next step is to get ldap authentication against an active directory
>  working. i followed
>  
> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Authentication#HLDAPConfigurationforActiveDirectory
>  and some postings on the mailing list but i cant get it to work.
>
>  i either end up with:
>  com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.ldap.XWikiLDAPException: Error number 0 in 5: LDAP
>  bind failed with LDAPException.
>  Wrapped Exception: Invalid Credentials
>
>  or worse (with in my eyes the propper config):
>  WARN  LDAP.XWikiLDAPAuthS
>  erviceImpl   - LDAP authentication failed.
>  java.lang.NullPointerException
>          at
>  
> com.xpn.xwiki.user.impl.LDAP.XWikiLDAPAuthServiceImpl.ldapAuthenticate(XWikiLDAPAuthServiceImpl.java:256)
>          at
>  
> com.xpn.xwiki.user.impl.LDAP.XWikiLDAPAuthServiceImpl.authenticate(XWikiLDAPAuthServiceImpl.java:107)
>          at
>  
> com.xpn.xwiki.user.impl.xwiki.MyFormAuthenticator.authenticate(MyFormAuthenticator.java:194)
>          at
>  
> com.xpn.xwiki.user.impl.xwiki.MyFormAuthenticator.processLogin(MyFormAuthenticator.java:127)
>          at
>  
> com.xpn.xwiki.user.impl.xwiki.MyFormAuthenticator.processLogin(MyFormAuthenticator.java:112)
>          at
>  
> com.xpn.xwiki.user.impl.xwiki.XWikiAuthServiceImpl.checkAuth(XWikiAuthServiceImpl.java:214)
>          at com.xpn.xwiki.XWiki.checkAuth(XWiki.java:3307)
>          at
>  
> com.xpn.xwiki.user.impl.xwiki.XWikiRightServiceImpl.checkAccess(XWikiRightServiceImpl.java:136)
>          at com.xpn.xwiki.XWiki.checkAccess(XWiki.java:3315)
>          at com.xpn.xwiki.XWiki.prepareDocuments(XWiki.java:4259)
>          at com.xpn.xwiki.web.XWikiAction.execute(XWikiAction.java:173)
>  ...

Could you copy/paste your configuration.

>
>
>  i've done ldap auth on several other tools (apache/subversion,
>  bugzilla). there i used two accounts: one allowed to bind to the active
>  directory and do searches and the useraccount itself.
>
>  in the xwiki config i can only see the user logging in is used to bind
>  to the ldap server?

You can define a user able to bind to the active directory using
"bind_DN" and "bind_pass" properties and it will search for provided
login in ldap based on "UID_attr" property

>
>
>  is the documentation current for xwiki 1.3.2.9174? or can someone give
>  me a hint to make this work?

Are you sure you use xwiki-core 1.3.2 version, I can't find in the
code what could make NullPointerException at
XWikiLDAPAuthServiceImpl.java:256

>
>
>  thanks a lot
>  regards
>
>  werner
>
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