Re: [PLUG] migrating to AD user with Likewise Open

[Stephen Gran <steve@lobefin.net>]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 02:37:17PM -0500, Michael Leone said:
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Mag Gam <magawake@gmail.com> wrote:
> > To be on topic, I too have a very similar question
> >
> > Presently, at my company we use AD for all authentication and as an
> > application developer my  biggest challenge is to integrate
> > authentication into our apps. The authentication team simply does not
> > answer or understand my question. Of course, there is a possibility I
> > am asking it wrong :-)
> >
> > As an alternative, we created a database with usernames and passwords
> > and all of our applications use this db. We are in our own
> > island...which is not good IMO
> >
> > I am no expert in AD whatsoever, but if I know my username, password,
> > and domain is there a library (C/C++/Java/Perl) I can use to test my
> > authentication?
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > user = < input >
> > password = < input >
> > domain = company.domain
> >
> > connect to AD server.
> > access domain
> > Check if user exists
> > Try to authentication by using user and password on domain. Return 0 || 1
> >
> > Is this possible to do? What other information would I need to
> > integrate AD into my app?
> 
> I'm not a programmer, but AD does work via an LDAP interface, port 389
> I believe. So I'm *guessing* that a library that allows for LDAP calls
> should be able to query AD. Dunno what the return codes would be, tho.

You need to set up permissions for the machine to do an LDAP query,
usually, so that may not be all that helpful.  He's probably looking
for one of the samba client libraries.
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