[Zope] LdapUserFolder 2.4 Authentication Woes

Jens Vagelpohl jens at dataflake.org
Tue Feb 8 17:22:50 EST 2005


On Feb 8, 2005, at 18:32, Edward Pollard wrote:
> First, I deleted the old LDAP folders and satellites, and recreated 
> new ones. Aside from the new login name attribute, the folders were 
> identical. (I've set Login Name, User ID, and RDN all to UID)
>
> I then created an acl_sattelite one folder down, and mapped a  LDAP 
> group to Manager.
>
> I then tried to log into the ZMI. It did not work, and the cache in 
> the LDAP User Folder only showed my account with the authenticated and 
> anonymous roles. So, I'd logged in fine, I just didn't get any Zope 
> roles out of the deal, which is what the LDAP satellite was supposed 
> to do, right?

Could you please post a problem description here so it doesn't get lost 
in the daily email flood:

http://www.dataflake.org/tracker/

That's where support for these products happens.


> One more little puzzler:
> With LDAPUserFolder 2.3, when I log in the Cache shows all my LDAP 
> Groups (and there are many) in the Roles field. In 2.4, it no longer 
> does this. In the configuration that works above it did add Manager to 
> my Roles field (as opposed to just Authenticated and Anonymous in the 
> configuration that did not work). Is this reflecting just a change in 
> the logic of the product (I could see why), or is this reflecting some 
> facet of the problem I'm experiencing?

Please read CHANGES.txt, it explains what has changed. Always a 
brilliant idea when upgrading, how else would you know what to expect?

jens



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