LDAP against Notes names file

[LTeeple]

Hello,
I am looking to use LDAP to authenticate against a Lotus NAB. I have no problem doing this using the user's full first name and last name, however, I want to be able to do it using the user's ShortName, which I can't successfully do. Can someone tell me if this is even possible? I'm using PHP by the way...

Here's my code for reference:
$dn="CN=" . $username . ", OU=OrganizationalUnit, O=Organization";
$ldaphost="ldaphost.com";
$ldapport=nnn;
$ip = "ldaphost.com:nnn";
if (!($ldap = ldap_connect($ldaphost,$ldapport))) {
die ("Could not connect to LDAP server");
}
if (!($res = @ldap_bind($ldap, $dn, $password))) {
die ("<div align=\"center\"><h3>Invalid username or password: Please try again</h3><a href=\"login.php\">Go back to login page</a></div>");
}

Any advice is helpful, thank you!


Cheers!
Laura

 

[cdeardor]

You're code is pointing to CN (Common Name). That is the full name. I'm not sure what the notes attribute for the shortname is, but that's what you should use if you want to use the shortname. Using that, and assuming the attribute name is uid, it should look something like this...

uid=shortname,ou=orgunit,o=org

Also, make sure the shortname attribute in the NAB is searchable by everyone, or else your app probably won't be able to see it.

 

[LTeeple]

Hi, Thanks for your response.

It turns out that this is simply a limitation, which I cannot take advantage of. It's no biggie though. It's just the difference between someone typing in their full name vs first initial last name.


Cheers!
Laura