iPlanet Web Server LDAP Authentication from Multiple LDAP Servers

From: Crist Clark (crist.clark@globalstar.com)
Date: Tue Jun 15 2004 - 18:11:05 EDT


I have an iPlanet 6.0 web server that does "Basic" HTTP authentication
for users. It looks up the users from a LDAP server. This is a pretty
standard configuration. The LDAP server, search base, and a DN to bind
to can easily be specified in the Admin Server web interface. The
information is actually stored in the <serverroot>/userdb/dbswitch.conf
file and can also be changed from there.

However, we would like to authenticate users that exist on the current
LDAP server or in a second directory on another server. I have been
looking through the documentation for a way to authenticate to a single
resource on the server from two different directories. Anyone know how
to do this or if it is possible? If not, anyone have good ideas for a
workaround?

It should be mentioned the second directory is actually Windows Active
Directory, but AFAIK, it speaks LDAP well enough that it should work
fine.

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Crist J. Clark                               crist.clark@globalstar.com
Globalstar Communications                                (408) 933-4387
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