[Zope] Group mapping not working on LDAPUserFolder

4 Jun 2004

      Hi,

I just found that the group mapping isn't working for our LDAP. I tried 
with the LDAPUserFolder 2.4beta2 and CookieCrumbler 1-1. I could 
authentificate myself against the LDAP, search some users, and I could 
also see the groups, but the group mapping (on the groups tab) didn't work.

This is what I have:

1) We have an extra attribute for the LDAP Schema:
LDAP Attribute Name: ou
Friendly Name: group
Multi-valued: Yes

This attribute gives us a list of groups to which a user belongs to. The 
rest configuration for the LDAP is quite normal:

Login Name Attribute: uid
RDN Attribute: uid
Users Base DN: ou=grp1,ou=grp2,ou=grp3,ou=grp4,o=org,c=country
Scope: SUBTREE
Group storage: Groups stored on LDAP server
Groups Base DN: cn=foo_account,ou=admins,ou=grp3,ou=grp4,o=org,c=country
Password: xxxxxx
Manager DN Usage: Always
Read-only checked
User password encryption: SSHA
Default User Roles: LDAP=Anonymous

LDAP Servers:
my_ldap.mydomain.com, port: 636, LDAP over SSL

2) Group mapping on the LDAPUserFolder's "groups" Tab:
"foo_group" maps to zope role "Manager"

3) Tried the following PageTemplate to authenticate my self on the LDAP 
(it prints the roles I have over the request):

User: <p tal:replace="python:user.getUserName()"></p><br>
Roles: <p tal:replace="python:user.getRolesInContext(here)"></p><br>
<p tal:condition="python:user.getUserName()=='Anonymous User'">
   you aren't logged in
</p>

<span tal:condition="python:user.getUserName()=='Anonymous User'">
   <span tal:condition="python:request.has_key('firstTime')">
     <h1>Login error</h1>
     <br><br>
     This user name isn't valid.<br>
     Perhaps your browser doesn't has cookies enabled.
     <br><br>
   </span>
   <span tal:condition="python:not request.has_key('firstTime')">
     <h1>
       For the following pages you need to login.
     </h1>
   </span>
   <table>
     <tr>
       <td>
         <form method="post" name="loginForm" action="some_url"
               tal:attributes="action python:request.URL0">
           <input type="hidden" name="firstTime" value="0">
           <table cellspacing="10">
             <tr>
               <td align="left" valign="top" width="170">
                 <font face="verdana"><strong>login:</strong></font>
               </td>
               <td align="left" valign="top">
                 <input type="TEXT" name="__ac_name" size="20" class="text"
                        value="" tal:attributes="value 
python:request.get('__ac_name','')">
               </td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
               <td align="left" valign="top">
                 <font face="verdana"><strong>password:</strong></font>
               </td>
               <td align="left" valign="top">
                 <input type="PASSWORD" name="__ac_password" size="20" 
class="text">
               </td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
               <td align="right" colspan="2">
                 <input type="submit" value=" Login " class="button">
               </td>
             </tr>
           </table>
         </form>
       </td>
       <td>
         <p>
           Login problems?<br>
           Perhaps your browser has cookies disabled
         </p>
       </td>
     </tr>
   </table>
</span>

I can authenticate myself against the LDAP, but What I get when printing 
the roles is:

User: my_login_name
Roles: ['Anonymous', 'Authenticated']

"my_login_name" belongs the foo_group and other groups as well, but It 
doesn't get the 'Manager' role as expected. Then, I found that line 333 
of LDAPUserFolder.py (method _lookupuserbyattr):

groups = list(self.getGroups(dn=dn, attr='cn', pwd=user_pwd))

doesn't return any group for this user, so, I replaced it for:

groups = user_attrs.get('ou',None)
if groups==None:
   groups = list(self.getGroups(dn=dn, attr='cn', pwd=user_pwd))

and now it works. I think this is possible on our case because of the 
additional "ou" attribute, but would it work on other configurations? Is 
this only happening to me, or is it a bug?

Regards,
Josef

[Zope] Group mapping not working on LDAPUserFolder

Josef Meile